Gordon Haff
Gordon Haff
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.
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.
analysis companies data number starting various
A number of companies are starting to look at supercomputing for various data analysis applications.
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.
running stay
You have to do a lot of running just to stay in place in this business.
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.
brand fact hardware selling using
Certainly, the fact that you need to be using brand new hardware is a selling disadvantage out the door.