In article <slrng29bll.4pk.syscjm@sumire.gwu.edu>,
Chris Mattern <syscjm@sumire.gwu.edu> wrote:
> > google does run toy hardware. I've seen more than enough of it at
> > datacenters.
>
> In that case, all I can say is that most corporations desperately
> need to make trip to the toy store.

Most corporations don't have an architecture that would benefit from
that. Most of Google's is distributed, and so if a cheap server goes
down, it is no big deal--it just puts a little more work on dozens of
other servers until the dead server gets replaced.

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--Tim Smith