Also das Open Compute Project von Facebook ist der Hammer, finde ich. Die legen einfach alle Details zu ihrem neuen Data Center in Oregon für jedermann offen – weil es halt nicht ihr Kerngeschäft ist.
That poses no threat to Facebook’s real business, says Frank Frankovsky, the company’s director of hardware design. „Facebook is successful because of the great social product, not [because] we can build low-cost infrastructure,“ he says. „There’s no reason we shouldn’t help others out with this.“