I mean, the friggin company is bleeding cash faster than Flavor Flav in a Vegas tittie bar, their costs are all out of whack, all of the big brains are long gone, they're on corporate life support, and what they need most is a serious dose of belt-tightening and a sharp focus on AMD-based machines ... so what do they do? They crank out this friggin monstrosity, which they claim customers are going to be lining up to buy. Project Blackbox, they call it. Project Frigtard would be a better name. Jesus. Now I know why John Doerr split. He can't stand watching Schwartz steer the ship into a new iceberg every three months. Dude, this thing looks like a friggin Meals on Wheels truck for Christ's sake. This photo doesn't show it but there's a Jordanian on the other side selling falafels out of a friggin window. And I'm pretty sure that's a soft drink dispenser at the far left. Man oh man. I mean, okay, this would be a fun idea if you were a booming company throwing off lots of cash, a place where engineers could just let their imaginations run wild. You know, like Sun, circa 1999. Oh wait. I get it. This must be that "big friggin Webtone switch" that Scooter was always ranting about. Maybe they found it sitting out in a building someplace and dusted it off. It'll look great in the Sun display at the Computer Museum alongside all their other great ideas, like paying a bazillion dollars for Star Office and half a bazillion for Cobalt.
Ponytail Boy, you need to have your head examined. But I love you, man. I do. You're always good for a laugh. Peace out.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Those crazy mofos at Sun, you gotta love em
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Steve,
Don't you see what's going on here? You've got your head so far up the consumer side, that you can barely see B2B, and certainly not the B2G course that Sun is charting.
This thing is totally built for the emerging government sector. We're in a new age here, where it's not enough just to give some starving kid some food and a malaria shot, you've got to kick him a crank-laptop while you're at it. Same goes for towns. While you're dropping the food, water and propaganda leaflets, you toss one of these suckers out the back of a C-130 with a giant parachute.
We've been dropping these in Iraq for the past couple of weeks, and it's going great so far. Nobody has them up and running yet, but we killed half a dozen insurgents when the chute didn't open on one we dropped just north of Tikrit.
Steve! Look out! I don't think pontail boy took that to well. I just saw a caravan of these things heading down pagemill toward your pad. If your at the compound stay there for the night. If you're at home, GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE!
I can't friggin' wait for some company to leave one of these "datacenters" in their parking lot and come in on a Monday to discover it's been stolen.
$500k for seven racks and I would guesstimate 70kw worth of power(two 208v 30amp circuits per rack)? If you read Equinix's SEC filings you will see that they spend approx $25k per rack to build their sites and in some cases that includes the cost of the Real Estate. To be clear, EQIX builds at approx 4kw per rack so you would need about 15 racks to achieve the same power density and that would cost $375k which is much less than the purported $500k for this container. This box product is such a niche offering that if Sun throws too much effort towards it they will be cutting Jonathan's ponytail off and using it to lock the door of one of these boxes while he is inside.
Does Sun think you are just going to park this in a garage and plug it in? There is no such thing as a 100kw receptacle. 10-15% greater efficiency on cooling? News flash people..that is nothing to get excited about. Sun could save us all much more than that if they and others designed the HARDWARE and SOFTWARE to be more efficient and let the datacenter people deal with HVAC efficiency. On top of that, when was the last time you worked with a company that had a finite growth trajectory? This product inherently has finite attributes. What happens when you fill up the seven racks? You just send them a $500k PO and back up another container in the parking lot? What happens when/if you need to downsize? Put the stupid thing on ebay? Jonathan has really lost it...perhaps he never had it becuase if this is the best he can come up with Sun is fucked.
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