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To: sea_biscuit who wrote (63589)1/2/2006 4:17:49 AM
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I think the comparison was between server expense and the cost of electricity to run them. Not between payroll expense and the cost of electricity to run the servers.

I don't see how that's reflected in Schwartz' Forbes interview, the relevant line of which is transcribed below. What he means to say is clear. He's just wrong.

This excerpt is from approximately 36:30 into the interview.

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--QS

...Dell's having a harder and harder time being relevant in the enterprise because guess what enterprises want, they care about power consumption, space consumption. I mean, the biggest war you're going to see fought out over the next twelve months is that electricity is incredibly expensive now. Why? Because oil is $70 a barrel. So what do CIO's care about? Ask Google what their power bill is. It's unfathomably large. It's probably as large as their payroll. And so does the CIO care about their power bill? They do. And so all of a sudden we've got systems that are 5x as power-efficient as everyone else because...
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