Gordon Haff
Gordon Haff
favor game late microsoft overcome
Microsoft is going to be very late to the game and will need to overcome a presumption that it will favor Windows.
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.
built business expertise leverage microsoft party software third wants
Microsoft has built its business on working with third party software vendors and wants to leverage that expertise to the supercomputing arena.
certainly determined features level microsoft money office opening opportunity seems somebody squeeze terms
Certainly it's at least at the same level of sophistication that Office 97 was in terms of features and capabilities, which is enough for most people, ... Microsoft seems determined to see how much money it can squeeze out of buyers, but in doing so, they're opening up an opportunity for somebody else to come in.
ability awareness certain code customers elements feedback greater influence microsoft mirror ongoing open openness source visibility
In the sense of having this ongoing awareness of and feedback mechanism, it does mirror certain elements of open source development. If not openness of code and standards, there is greater visibility into what's going on. Customers have visibility more than an ability to necessarily influence Microsoft greatly.
bottom buy choice line market microsoft product
I don't think Microsoft had much choice in the matter. The bottom line is there is not a whole lot of market to buy that product from Microsoft.
devil question
It is a question of the devil you know.
intel likes messages michael option send
Michael Dell likes to periodically send messages to Intel that Dell does have the option of introducing AMD.
running stay
You have to do a lot of running just to stay in place in this business.
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.
benefit
With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, there would not be an Itanium today.
call came certainly dead given hard people performance
When the Pentium 4 first came out, the performance was very disappointing to a lot of people initially. It's hard to call the Pentium 4 a failure, given how many they sold, but it was certainly an evolutionary dead end.
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.
basically binary computer concept fallen flat good history job says thrown
History says that binary translation basically doesn't work. The day may come when someone can do a good enough job with it, but that concept has been thrown out there many times in the computer industry, and it's always fallen flat on its face.