[ale] great article on Google

[Cade Thacker]

sorry, the link was at the very bottom of the email.

http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=207920

--cade

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On Fri, 24 May 2002, Cade Thacker wrote:

> 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
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> http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=207920
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