I read both in Business 2.0 and BusinessWeek about the massive grids Google, Microsoft, eBay, amazon and Yahoo are building. Business 2.0 estimates the five web giants spent $ 3 billion in capital budgets in 2005 and are estimated to spend over $ 5 billion in 2006. I am scratching my head though. Why are they building this rather than leveraging the outsourcing infrastructure of EDS or HP? Surely it is not their core competence?
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