Jonathan Eunice Quotations

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.

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

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,

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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