Comments on: Google’s Competitive Advantage: Plumbing http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/05/31/googles-competitive-advantage-plumbing/ by Stephen E. Arnold Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:55:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stephen E. Arnold http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/05/31/googles-competitive-advantage-plumbing/comment-page-1/#comment-12324 Stephen E. Arnold Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:18:32 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=528#comment-12324 Hi, Joe, as I have said in the past, I am recycling most of the information you find in this Web log. Material that won't fit in my for fee studies or information that I prepared for a paid writing job finds its way here. Someone at SAS discovered the downside of this approach because I reported what the company thought was "old news". Well, it was old news. That's what's in the Web log. With regards to other platforms at Google, I can only say that I have heard Google buys what it needs. The company has a range of gear, including the rig you mention, stuff from different vendors, and gear purchased to perform specific tests. Google, of course, won't answer my questions, so I have no first-hand information. I gather little items about Google the way a squirrel picks up walnuts. I hope this helps. Thanks, Stephen Arnold, June 2, 2008 Hi, Joe, as I have said in the past, I am recycling most of the information you find in this Web log. Material that won’t fit in my for fee studies or information that I prepared for a paid writing job finds its way here. Someone at SAS discovered the downside of this approach because I reported what the company thought was “old news”. Well, it was old news. That’s what’s in the Web log.

With regards to other platforms at Google, I can only say that I have heard Google buys what it needs. The company has a range of gear, including the rig you mention, stuff from different vendors, and gear purchased to perform specific tests.

Google, of course, won’t answer my questions, so I have no first-hand information. I gather little items about Google the way a squirrel picks up walnuts.

I hope this helps.

Thanks,
Stephen Arnold, June 2, 2008

]]> By: Joe Harris http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/05/31/googles-competitive-advantage-plumbing/comment-page-1/#comment-12314 Joe Harris Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:24:07 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=528#comment-12314 Hi Stephen, insightful as usual. How do you find time to write so many articles? Anyway, your article triggered a memory for me. A couple of years ago a technical account manager for Netezza told me that they have a huge Netezza rig at the Googleplex and they use it for a algorithm development. Have you ever heard a similar rumor or anything to corroborate this? Joe Hi Stephen,

insightful as usual. How do you find time to write so many articles?

Anyway, your article triggered a memory for me. A couple of years ago a technical account manager for Netezza told me that they have a huge Netezza rig at the Googleplex and they use it for a algorithm development.

Have you ever heard a similar rumor or anything to corroborate this?

Joe

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