Sun CTO Predicts Internet Consolidation Endgame 167
Romerican writes "C|Net is running an interview with Greg Papadopoulos, CTO of Sun Microsystems, about the Very Near Future where he essential sees the Internet as no longer competitive. He has blogged his belief that the end game is here and nothing is likely to unseat the new world order." From the C|Net article: "It's called software as a service. It really is the running of what we think of as IT through the network. You don't buy software, you buy the consequence of the software. That starts with the small and medium enterprises. eBay, in my mind, is the leading example of small businesses being absorbed by services. Anybody who clicks their store on eBay is in fact consuming a service. They are contributing to a larger-scale eBay rather than them buying some server and sticking it on their desk."
Re:What a Fucking Idiot! (Score:3, Informative)
How do you figure? Maybe my math is wrong.
300W x 24 hours / day x 30 days / month = 216kW-hours per month
In my area, a kW-hour costs about 14 cents. But, lets say you live in CA where I understand electricity runs about 12 cents/kWh.
216kWh / month x 0.12 $ / kWh = $25.92 / month.
Looks like you might be running up a bigger bill than you think.
The net connection where I am has only gone down twice in nearly four years and this was only due to planned moves.
Seriously? I have to get me one of those, mine is down at least once a month, until I reboot the modem. Also, we generally have cable outages 6-8 times a year for an extended period (2-10 hours). Who provides your internet service?