Are there challenges to building an eco-friendly environment?
I don’t think so. I also don’t think that it’s right for every organization to think they have to become eco-friendly quickly. I think that it’s an evolution thing. It can be as simple as telling you to go buy eco-friendly servers for a data center, for example. How important is it for the CFO to balance processor speed with cost and energy consumption? At Sun, we’re espousing new metrics to capture these various dimensions of processing capability. So we’re trying to come up with a standard metrics to evaluate the relative eco-friendliness, if you will, of one processor over another. So I think it can be as simple as looking at your next procurement and considering for the first time, perhaps, energy as one decision criterion in your purchase. As you begin to look at energy consumption in the data center and as those decisions are made, over time, you become more and more eco-friendly, so it doesn’t have to be an overnight sort of thing. Do vendors today actively talk about energy con
