22 Quotes by Jonathan Eunice

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.

Applications also can be connected pretty seamlessly, which is a major shift with respect to what formerly could be achieved with respect to all these islands of automation? They can finally stop thinking about application and hardware silos -- and the discrete functions they perform -- and begin shifting their attention toward the processes themselves, which is where the real business value lies.

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

This is a more shrink-wrapped approach for the concept of grid computing that targets a more modest area of use.

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

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.

A lot of these high-end business applications have a very high return on their investments. With grid architecture you can be ready to do that.

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

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