On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Eric D. Mudama wrote:
SATA is so "yesterday". It represents "in the box" thinking.
While SATA itself has been around for a while, and using it to plug in
a single 1.5TB or whatever rotating drive is standard in-the-box
thinking, using SATA in new ways (DIMM form factor or whatever) allows
Sun (and others) to leverage a lot of work by other companies into new
and interesting directions.
Sun did the DIMM thing back in 1993/1994 so this is not exactly new.
Probably the SATA bit is new.
If you think *too* outside the box all the time, you'll need to
stretch your one sale pretty far to keep food on the table. Seems
like Sun is striking a decent balance to me.
The economic downturn may require more innovative thinking for
survival.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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