SUN CTO abuses stellar theory with less than stellar "Red Shift" analogy.

[Gldm]

http://itnews.com.au/News/59322,the-red-shift-theory.aspx

Basically this guy is going on about companies that "outpace Moore's Law" in terms of their computing demands due to "exponential IT expansion". Obviously the solution is to buy more "big iron" hardware like say, SUN servers. Gee, who'd have thought a major SUN exec would conclude something like that?

The theory is pretty much bogus marketing crap cloaked in a bad pseudoscience analogy with no supporting evidence or research. I'd love to hear what is supposedly driving the ever-expanding growth of the IT demands he's going on about. It's not like we know why the actual universe is expanding either. Perhaps dark software? Does that mean piracy is fueling it?

And yet this is major news all over the web today. What a crock.

[Chevron]

It's not like we know why the actual universe is expanding either.

Slightly off topic, but isn't the universe expanding, because of the big bang?
And whether or not it starts to contract depends on whether or not there's enough mass in the universe to produce enough gravity to pull everything back together again?

[Gldm]

The thing is we now believe it's not just expanding, but accelerating in its expansion, which messes with many things. This has led to the theory of "dark energy" to go along with dark matter and generally try and cover up that we really have no freaking clue.

[Miktar]

The problem with building up a mathematical model of a hypothesis, is that we're still struggling with 'maths' half the time.