This is a long post...make a coffee first.
Point of this topic: Comparison to other similar type model.
Main point: Can URU really be made open source and affordably LIVE?
Firstly there is no need to determine the URU open source project against SL and.....
Secondly forget these new datacenters too.When Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Amazon, et al have their new datacentres for "cloud computing" up
These datacenters of which you speak are tcp specific. For mmo gaming they are slower than Linux running on a P2 with 128 ram. No apologies given. MMO LIVE gaming requires very careful UDP package management. Of Cloud Computing... I have been there, done that and it wasn't cheap, nor was it successful. SL started a long time back...their engine is of that day, and they afford it with their present user count and income. Hardly relative to the task at hand.
Ok Server Facts.....
This model has been thoroughly tested and is still running today....
10 mg guaranteed output per user with streamed udp packets
built-in client udp manager (most important part)-(the colonels secret recipe).
at full throttle a gamer on a gamer's machine laughs at how lovely a 10mg connection in a 3d world plays.
worst scenario a p3 in an office running on a single 100mb cable shared with 30 other machines.
this office avatar walks comfortably alongside the gamer avatar with the only indicative loss being to the depth of field before the avatars.
an almost zero lag achieved.
with this scenarion I can achieve 30 users per server at a cost of $1 per user per month.
+$2 to add voice servers per 20 users per month. a voice server has no lag impact on the 3d world performance.
I know this as i do this everyday.
I am also running a full 3d mmo.
this is the system that I have developed and this is the system that I will give to the URU Open Source team free of charge for the initial stages.
I cant of course give it away free for ever lol
but some arrangements regarding that can be discussed later.
So forget the SL numbers for now and disregard hype from cloud serving companies...I have the solutions in place already for you. What the others do is their thing...URU is something more than that.
Take it easy...finish your coffee and then when the code comes...it will all happen with ease... for we are the puzzle makers
Point of this topic: Comparison to other similar type model.
Main point: Can URU really be made open source and affordably LIVE?
Answer is: Massively YES. Because the people of URU want it to be.