Re: Eucaliptus

I think he meant that given the performance of modern java, for a
given unit of work, his VMs would be sitting around idle most of the
time. For the same user load, RoR would keep the cores nice and busy.

;)

geir

On Jun 10, 2008, at 6:41 PM, Stuart Charlton wrote:

> Java, a waste of resources? What is this, 1996?
>
> Stu
>
>
> On Jun 10, 2008, at 12:51 PM, Reuven Cohen wrote:
>
>> Eucalyptus looks very promising, although all that java looks like
>> a waste of resources. I'd also be interested in hearing peoples
>> experiences with the platform.
>>
>> Reuven
>> www.enomalism.com
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:29 PM, simone brunozzi <simone....@gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>> Noah,
>> i suppose you meant "AMI", not "API". AMI is short for Amazon Machine
>> Image, and yes, Amazon uses Xen.
>> From my personal, unofficial perspective, Eucalyptus is an
>> interesting
>> project, but it doesn't have much sense if you don't face lock-in
>> policies. You could need Eucalyptus if, for example, the cloud
>> provider was not using an open source hypervisor, such as Vmware. In
>> those cases, migrating your IT infrastructure is more expensive,
>> because you need to re-engineer most services. Data, instead, is
>> always accessible from any cloud provider so far.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Simone
>>
>> Simone Brunozzi
>> Amazon.com Technology Evangelist - Europe
>
>
> >

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