100.000 – number of Google servers - [nytimes.com: The Commning search war]
FYI: HP, Dell a IBM sold 13.000 servers in 2003 in Czech Republic [source Inside Report]
read more: The Secret Source of Google's Power
... Competitive Advantage
Google is a company that has built a single very large, custom computer. It's running their own cluster operating system. They make their big computer even bigger and faster each month, while lowering the cost of CPU cycles. It's looking more like a general purpose platform than a cluster optimized for a single application.
While competitors are targeting the individual applications Google has deployed, Google is building a massive, general purpose computing platform for web-scale programming.
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