<story><title>Facebook open sources its servers and data centers</title><url>http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-open-sources-its-servers-and-data-centers/ </url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codex</author><text>This is a strategic attack on Google.  A proliferation of scalable data centers hurts Google a lot more than Facebook by enabling Google&apos;s competitors.  Cheap computation matters much more to search engines than social networking sites.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ssp</author><text>It could be. I always thought that an interesting way to compete with Google would be to index the web and then sell map/reduce access to that index.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook open sources its servers and data centers</title><url>http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-open-sources-its-servers-and-data-centers/ </url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codex</author><text>This is a strategic attack on Google.  A proliferation of scalable data centers hurts Google a lot more than Facebook by enabling Google&apos;s competitors.  Cheap computation matters much more to search engines than social networking sites.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>diegob</author><text>A proliferation of scalable data centers could also enable the next generation of social networking sites ... I don&apos;t see why it&apos;s limited to helping Google&apos;s competitors and not Facebook&apos;s.</text></comment>