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osOpinion: A Free Supercomputer

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 20, 1999

[ Thanks to Kelly
McNeill
for this link. ]

The killer application is the one that gives your team the
advantage over your competition. This next generation of
applications awaits the companies that are bold enough to move to
Linux.

“What I envision is a whole scale switch of every machine in the
company, the servers and all of the desktops. People squeal about,
“But Debbie is just too dumb to learn a new word processor”. This
couldn’t be farther from the truth. Give her a chance….”

“Now comes the good part. You take some of the $200k left over
after investing in the users schooling, and hire some real Geeks to
write your “Killer Application”. You sir now have a 250 node
cluster of Pentium II class computers. This is by most definitions,
“a supercomputer”. Your new application will be used to gain the
advantage over your competitors.”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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