The Trailer Park Is the Computer

For quite a few years now we have heard about variously Google, Sun Microsoft and other deploying this technology although it has never been with much specificity.

A parking lot full of these doesn’t make so much sense to me as would one or two in some downtown area (or remote area) where spot performance is an issue. An alternative would involve a disaster recovery scenario.

Reminds me of the period where sales reps for modular cubicle systems were flooding the press with propaganda regarding the advantages of cubicles over conventional build-out (in spite of the fact that they are ridiculously expensive by comparison with the build-to-suit technology).

But enter any “hi-tech” workplace and you’ll see that the sales pitch was eventually successful.

So I guess eventually people are going to use (and misuse) these systems just because the sales rep won’t leave them alone until they do.

I wonder if the Microsoft versions will have a master CTR-ALT-DELETE button on the side for the inevitable mass BSODs.