A lot of noise is being made about Google's new web mail service, GMail. But here is a blog entry that talks about the real power of Google and why they are going to dominate the next decade of the Web.
A quote from the blog:
Google has taken the last 10 years of systems software research out of university labs, and built their own proprietary, production quality system. What is this platform that Google is building? It's a distributed computing platform that can manage web-scale datasets on 100,000 node server clusters. It includes a petabyte, distributed, fault tolerant filesystem, distributed RPC code, probably network shared memory and process migration. And a datacenter management system which lets a handful of ops engineers effectively run 100,000 servers. Any of these projects could be the sole focus of a startup.Posted by xeeban at April 5, 2004 04:01 PM