Comments on: Microsoft Says: We Can Build a Friggin' Grid Too

By: Gordon Freeman

Gordon Freeman — Sat, 06 May 2006 08:54:33 +0000

>>The search war is now an arms race.

This arms race is started a long time ago between other searchengines, and the war Microsoft > Google will still going on for a long time.

By: Kieran

Kieran — Thu, 04 May 2006 15:26:59 +0000

MSFT used to be viewed as the leading tech innovator – This move makes complete sense to restore that title.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 04 May 2006 06:23:57 +0000

I don’t really get it. I understand the need for large storage and access solutions like S3, but in terms of a layer of web services on top of that, lightweight seems to win out time and time again. Web services are the antithesis of the monopoly control Microsoft is used to. Is it still a web service if it’s just one Microsoft server talking to another Microsoft server?

By: Derek Tumolo

Derek Tumolo — Thu, 04 May 2006 02:08:39 +0000

Melanie has to go. Seriously, I can't keep up with all the posting. Haha. Keep up the good work.

-Derek

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 04 May 2006 01:44:22 +0000

Microsoft has already built a pretty damned big grid. A single Excel sheet in Excel 12 will have 17,179,869,184 cells!!!

By: Gen

Gen — Wed, 03 May 2006 23:23:41 +0000

John, the whole Rick Sherlund-Chris Liddell back-and-forth is available on the Seeking Alpha transcript of the Microsoft earnings call.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/9705

I highly reccomend this site for you to point folks to in the future- very awesome service.

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 03 May 2006 21:50:30 +0000

Actually, that link goes to a Seattle Times story, John!

By: Jeremy Wright

Jeremy Wright — Wed, 03 May 2006 19:39:53 +0000

Microsoft already has more than 250,000 servers. Sure, it’s not a grid, but then Google’s grid isn’t really a grid either anymore. It’s too sectioned to be seen as a true grid at all.

Not that I’m saying this won’t happen or that it’s a bad idea. Personally I think a unified infrastructure would save Microsoft gobs of money, tech personnel, etc. However their culture is such that if they did it, getting approval to put apps on the grid would be a nightmare

By: Eric Giguere

Eric Giguere — Wed, 03 May 2006 19:12:21 +0000

And yet Amazon is perhaps the furthest down the curve with this stuff. You can buy data storage services today via S3, and they have extensive web services for various other things. Don’t count them out yet…

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Wed, 03 May 2006 19:06:24 +0000

Next think you know Microsoft will start buying up all of the dark fiber that Google did not get hold of.