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Google's Infrastructure    [ Software ]

Older article (published July 6) on How Google Works from BaseLine Magazine. Interesting bits:

* Google often doesn't deploy standard business applications on standard hardware. Instead, it may use the same text parsing technology that drives its search engine to extract application input from an e-mail, rather than a conventional user interface based on data entry forms.

* "Sorry, we don't talk about our infrastructure."

Makes you wonder whether large organizations would be better served by going with the grid-model for computing and deploying their business apps on the grid, rather than the traditional spec-out-a-server-and-toss-COTS-packages-on-it approach.