To shell and back

“And everyone’s going to find the real reason why people buy a HP box or an IBM box today is pretty much one piece of equipment - the power supply. Why? Because the grey box vendors haven’t discovered that when you make a 1U rackmount machine, you have to put in a power supply that can run 24/7 for four years. And if you can do that, they’ll buy your box. That’s what HP and IBM and Sun do. They just put a power supply in it, with a good fan so it doesn’t break. Otherwise the machines are identical.”

Loved that. Read the whole interview, titled “Staying on the cutting edge“.