January 21, 2006
Google OS & Software
“Definitely, and we have systems running over there (Google) right now,” he said. He also said that Google is thinking about whether it wants to be running its own data centers and developing its own software.
He added that Google created its own operating system to run its grids. And now there are some within Google that question whether they should continue doing that, especially since there is so much open source software, and middleware available (from Sun, of course :-) and increasingly, specialist grid builders.
Google has been thinking and rethinking the thoughts of creating their own software as such. Google OS (see below) has already been in production in various locations owned by Google, for internal use only. Google is considering outsourcing future infrastructure projects, which would make sense for them to do — but again, only time will tell what actually happens with the future of Google and its software.
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