CNN: Interview with Google CEO

[Warren Togami]

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/02/01/interview.eric.schmidt.idg/index
.html

This is an interesting interview with Google's CEO Eric Schmidt talking
about their business success wit.hout resorting to cheesy revenue tactics.
Google's thousands of servers in several data centers runs 100% Red Hat
Linux.  Go Google!

An interesting bit is what he says about high speed storage:

"Schmidt: Technology is always evolving, and companies -- not just search
companies -- can't be afraid to take advantage of change.
When was the last time a computer or network was built to take advantage of
cheap bandwidth, cheap DRAM, and plentiful PCs? Most companies are still
building mainframes based on old computer architectures.

At Google, for example, we found it costs less money and it is more
efficient to use DRAM as storage as opposed to hard disks -- which is kind
of amazing. It turns out that DRAM is 200,000 times more efficient when it
comes to storing seekable data. In a disk architecture, you have to wait for
a disk arm to retrieve information off of a hard-disk platter. DRAM is not
only cheaper, but queries are lightning fast."