From: Mike Harrold <mharrold@cas.org>
To: chromi@cyberspace.org (Jonathan Morton)
Cc: dhowells@cambridge.redhat.com (David Howells),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jjb@nexor.co.uk
Subject: Re: *grin* Windows 2000 & HPC: Scalable, Inexpensive
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:21:24 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200102141421.JAA11930@mah21awu.cas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <l03130328b6b03a746ec4@[192.168.239.101]> from "Jonathan Morton" at Feb 14, 2001 01:38:26 PM
>
> At 9:10 am +0000 14/2/2001, David Howells wrote:
> >How this for a laugh:
> >
> >http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS2000/hpc/indstand.asp
> >
>
> Can anybody say "Beowulf cluster"? I bet you need a W2K license for every
> box you hook up, too.
The sad thing is, 3/4 of the page is an outright lie. It isn't
a first, W2k is not the de facto standard OS, and the TCO is
significantly higher than any cluster running Linux.
It's a sad day when companies can get away with blatant lies
all in the name of "marketing."
/Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-14 14:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-14 9:10 *grin* Windows 2000 & HPC: Scalable, Inexpensive Supercomputing Solutions David Howells
2001-02-14 13:38 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-02-14 14:21 ` Mike Harrold [this message]
2001-02-15 14:01 ` *grin* Windows 2000 & HPC: Scalable, Inexpensive Gnea
2001-02-20 20:28 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
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