Gordon Haff
Gordon Haff
costs reducing security
This is about reducing administrative costs more than about security.
background company deal engineers experience good local looks management obviously skills systems terms type useful
It's a local company with some useful code, engineers who obviously have skills and background and experience in the type of systems management that HP has. We don't know the terms of the deal, but it probably was not all that expensive. It looks to be a good deal for HP.
attempts company few key market microsoft player position success
Microsoft has made a few unsuccessful attempts to become a key player in the supercomputer market but the company could be in a better position for success this time.
announced galaxy generation good grabbing
This isn't a new generation of servers aimed at grabbing a lot of new-to-Sun business. That's what the Galaxy server it just announced is for. But this is a good upgrade.
backup based general intel products reason shown statements
Intel has shown preliminary benchmarks that backup their general statements about performance. Based on what I have seen, there is not reason to think the products will not live up to their billing.
arguably devices exceptions floating general graphics people point processing purpose special tried won
People have tried a lot of special purpose processing devices over the years and, with the exceptions of graphics units and arguably floating point units, general purpose processors have always won out in the end.
boxes buying coming era good problems run selling solving
Dell has had a really good run selling essentially cookie-cutter rack-mount servers. But the era of solving problems by just buying more boxes is coming to a close.
intel likes messages michael option send
Michael Dell likes to periodically send messages to Intel that Dell does have the option of introducing AMD.
devil question
It is a question of the devil you know.
benefit
With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, there would not be an Itanium today.
running stay
You have to do a lot of running just to stay in place in this business.
believe clients desktop efficient fat particular potential thin tied types users various
The potential here is a lot more efficient use of hardware, better centralized management, and potentially more flexibility with users in that they're not tied to a particular desktop device. I don't believe there's a one-size-fits-all approach, we'll probably end up with a combination of thin clients and various types of fat clients.
appear benchmark blue moon numbers particular
Those do not appear to be cherry-picked numbers of some particular benchmark on a blue moon with a tailwind blowing.
apple difficult increase investment problem
The problem is, to be at that nirvana, Apple would have to have the ISVs increase their investment on Apple hardware, at least in the transition. That is very difficult for Apple.