walkman - 8:35 pm on May 4, 2006 (gmt 0)

>> If they use this to buy $10,000 servers(which would be a very bulky, name brand server - dual proc, couple gigs of ram, 6x300GB SCSI drives give or take) they can buy 150,000 servers. That's 225,000,000 Gigabytes of uncompressed information storage on servers that can handle thousands of requests per second EACH.

I'm not a MBA, but something tells that there has to be more than just buying servers and calculating space. Infrastructure means DC maintenance, creation, buying the servers, modifying them, replacing, maintaining, bandwidth etc. etc. Plus, things go wrong, and eventually you reach a point where you don't get the same return on the investment (i.e. doubling the investment will not increase your "infrastructure" by 100%)