<![CDATA[Ross Mayfield’s Weblog: Sun Opens the Computing Commodity Market:
While this is an admirable stack, and is significant progress in a consistent redefinition of Sun’s strategy, it has little to do with the commoditization of computing. How the commodity is produced is irrelevant except as a temporary source of advantage for one actor. What matters is defining price, quantity, quality and delivery mechanisms. What Sun has defined is price and quantity, and now its time to hire some lawyers into the marketing department.
Great analysis from Ross, see also my Red Herring piece about the Sun grid-based utility computing announcement. My take is that commoditization of cycles is of little importance if the cycles aren’t shaped into value by software. Meaning there is a huge clash ahead between software vendors and the hardware folks that want to run single copies of software to serve the world’s needs.]]>