Gordon Haff Art Quotations

Certainly Power Everywhere, to some level, includes OEMing systems, though for the most part it's more focused on the use of the Power architecture by various partners in client devices, game consoles, whatever, than it is in computer systems, ... Power Everywhere and OpenPower are really about using collaborators ? to get Power into new types of devices.

The potential here is a lot more efficient use of hardware, better centralized management, and potentially more flexibility with users in that they're not tied to a particular desktop device. I don't believe there's a one-size-fits-all approach, we'll probably end up with a combination of thin clients and various types of fat clients.

Those do not appear to be cherry-picked numbers of some particular benchmark on a blue moon with a tailwind blowing.

A number of companies are starting to look at supercomputing for various data analysis applications.

Microsoft has built its business on working with third party software vendors and wants to leverage that expertise to the supercomputing arena.

Particularly with this kind of niche, this isn't really so much about the box, it's about channels and go-to-market. It's about setting up distribution and supply partners more than it is about the right box.

Software patents are a mess, ... Even if you don't believe in abolishing them entirely, there have been far too many examples of patents being granted even in light of overwhelming evidence of prior art and of dusty old patents on their third owner suddenly being used for a form of blackmail.