{"id":896,"date":"2005-10-27T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=896"},"modified":"2005-10-27T23:32:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T18:32:00","slug":"the-grid-sucks-part-2374","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=896","title":{"rendered":"The grid sucks, part 2,374"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/articles\/05\/10\/27\/1422230.shtml?tid=102&#038;tid=187\">Slashdork<\/a> reports that:<\/p>\n<p><em>Sun&#8217;s pay-for-use grid computing services hasn&#8217;t picked up a single customer yet.&#8221; From the article: &#8220;The missing customers prove quite shocking when you consider that utility computing users must agree to be named in marketing programs as part of their contract with Sun &#8211; a fact learned by The Register and confirmed by a Sun spokeswoman. More than one year since it first started hyping the &#8216;pay-for-use grid computing services&#8217; Sun is still weeks away from presenting a customer to the public. The program has proved much tougher to sell that Sun ever imagined.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sun?  Misread the market?  Naaaaaaaaaahhh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slashdork reports that: Sun&#8217;s pay-for-use grid computing services hasn&#8217;t picked up a single customer yet.&#8221; From the article: &#8220;The missing customers prove quite shocking when you consider that utility computing users must agree to be named in marketing programs as part of their contract with Sun &#8211; a fact learned by The Register and confirmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}