Yup, they’re all by the damn map at Sun these days. Big supercomputer coming tomorrow. Will rank near top of the Top 500 list. When I called My Little Pony to ask him why they’re building that incredibly expensive one-off machine at a day when the company is fighting for its survival, he launched into a rambling lecture about the future of cloud computing and the open-source stack and the endless possibilities to leverage synergies and deliver a complete solution to meet customer demand in response to real customer needs while additionally providing a greener solution

that uses less potential and requires less cooling thereby delivering a lower total cost of ownership and additionally there’s the incredible potential of software to free customers from vendor lock-in and deliver new solutions that harness the creativity of the really great engineers at Sun like Andy Bechtolsheim who basically has freedom to explore whatever he wants and just come up with great ideas …

At that point I put down the phone and went to the bathroom. When I came back Jonathan was still talking. Amazing.

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