I met with Roger Day, Sun’s Engineering Director responsible for building Sun’s Utility Grid. We had a long conversation. I was eager to explore how one makes the outputs of the grid homogeneous, since the homogeneity of commodity is one of its axiomatic qualities. He asked me what I thought of the idea of an exchange. I replied that my view is that if we can create a primary market, and it looks like we can, a secondary market will follow. I wonder though if people will look to exchange Solaris CPU/hours for AIX or even Windows CPU/hours. Will we have a cycle FX market?.

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Originally posted on my sun/oracle blog, and republished here in Feb 2016.

Will CPU trading enable an FX market??
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  • 12th February 2016 at 10:45 am
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    Quite dated, and also quite wrong. I had a very restricted view on how cloud computing would evolve.

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