[ale] great article on Google

[Cade Thacker]

Though you guys/gals would find this article interesting. Gives you a
good idea of how google runs their company. My favorite part is:

<QUOTE>
But to understand what's behind Google's success, one needs to travel ten
miles south to its data center in Santa Clara. Here, in three
over-air-conditioned cages, each the size of a small office, are thousands
of Google's servers. There are more than 10,000 such servers in five of
these data centers around the country. Many of the machines look as if
high school students had built them for a science fair.  They have no
cases but instead slide out of their racks on kitchen-drawer rails.

It's cute, yes. But it also helps explain why Google still exists and why
Schmidt went to work there: Each rack has 80 servers, instead of the
typical ten, which means that Google can get eight times the firepower
that competitors can in the same space. The servers run the free Linux
operating system, not the expensive Microsoft or Sun OS. And because the
computers are built in-house with commodity hardware, they can be repaired
or replaced easily.
</QUOTE>

Very Cool!!!

--cade

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Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 14:47:09 -0400
From: Cade_Thacker at HomeDepot.com
To: ale at ale.org
To: cade at cade.org
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http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=207920



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