Gordon Haff
Gordon Haff
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.
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.
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.
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.
assume company financial good paint preferred reality results track until waited
I assume Scott will paint it as things are back on track and the company is in good hands, but I think the reality is he would have preferred to have waited until the financial results were really there.
changing direction general number people scope small struggling
I see this as fine-tuning more than changing direction. Obviously, they're struggling financially, but in general this is a small number of people in the scope of things at Sun.
comparable performance
They are all comparable in performance for high-end, non-X86 architectures.
adopt core either slower stick
Enterprises must either adopt multi core or stick with slower chips.
cell certainly model relatively
Programming Cell is relatively hard. Certainly a higher-level, more abstracted model makes programming a lot easier.
companies content happy jobs leave people reasonably
People do not typically leave companies if they are deliriously happy with their roles, but sometimes even people who are reasonably content with their jobs find better opportunities that come along.
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.
intel likes messages michael option send
Michael Dell likes to periodically send messages to Intel that Dell does have the option of introducing AMD.