Jonathan Eunice Quotations

Web-services technology is complicated stuff. You've got all sorts of standards governing security , reliability, and message bundling, and there are 30 or 40 major specifications and standards involved as well as a couple hundred slightly more minor ones. In a considerable number of cases, you will have to learn many of these dialects and it's a bewildering array to learn indeed.

Many companies will not feel safe from privacy, service availability, or regulatory-compliance perspectives having all of their activities hosted outside their organizations' firewalls. Even so, they might want the benefits of not having to install software on every system they have.

She teetered really, really, really close to just being disrespected everywhere. But so did Lou Gerstner in his early days at IBM. If she's successful, it's a new model.

He's been calling a lot of the plays over the last couple of years. This is his architecture, this is his strategy that Sun is playing. He has really put a lot of energy and new thinking into Sun.

HP is the Unix vendor that drove this trend toward virtualization in the mid-90s, so they've been working on it for some years but haven't always marketed it effectively,

The amount of computing resources put into place with a grid architecture can be enormous. Companies get to add the equivalent of a couple thousands PCs and that added horsepower that they do not have to pay for.

The real threat is no longer letting those incredibly powerful suppliers drive a truck through the middle, ... In the old days, if HP didn't go the way Microsoft wanted, they would say, 'That's fine. Compaq will do it for us.' Many strategic suppliers could indeed leverage the two companies against each other. Now they won't be able to.

While perfectly ready for prime time today, there are still some ingredients that have not yet been completely baked and the process of evolution is still underway.

There are a couple of models that are easy to imagine.

Two- or four-processor computing is the typical entry point in lieu of grid computing. If it works on inexpensive servers, then good for you.

Applications also can be connected pretty seamlessly, which is a major shift with respect to what formerly could be achieved with respect to all these islands of automation? They can finally stop thinking about application and hardware silos -- and the discrete functions they perform -- and begin shifting their attention toward the processes themselves, which is where the real business value lies.

This can reduce response time tremendously. It gives them more bites at the apple.

This is a more shrink-wrapped approach for the concept of grid computing that targets a more modest area of use.

A lot of energy was being diffused and burned up in the process.

A lot of the management of distribution is common sense. The problem is getting everyone's interests reasonably well aligned, getting people to play nicely together even though their interests are often not strictly aligned, and getting people to not act as though everything is a pure zero-sum game.

A lot of these high-end business applications have a very high return on their investments. With grid architecture you can be ready to do that.

It's not so much a calculated security equation as an icky feeling about doing things differently.

Sun Grid is pretty much a laughingstock, because they announced it multiple times and they failed multiple times to deliver it.

That said, software as a service is an evolution, not a replacement for software as we know it.

Intel is working very hard to make this dual-core turn, and doing a surprisingly good job at it,

High-speed or broadband networks are now common. Server operating systems are highly scalable and ready to support thousands or tens of thousands of clients.

I don't see this as a crushing delay, but it certainly is embarrassing. It sounds like a four- to five-month delay, and that's not a disastrous day for Intel.