Story: Sun has its head in the clouds

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Your article fails to identify the most serious shortcoming of the distributed computing ideal--lack of scarcity.

Unlike energy, as in your solar power analogy, computer processing power is not scarce for the vast majority of computer users (and CPU cycles) on the planet. Its like Enron Broadband trying to create a marketplace for which there is no substantial marginal demand. It is now five years later, Moore's law still holds, and depending on scarcity of CPU bandwidth, like communication bandwidth, is a frail hook indeed to hang ones hopes on.

Sun is focusing, in derelection of its duty to user and shareholder alike, on sizzle rather than maintaining focus on the mundane main courses that serve the needs of most of us.

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