Do more with “the same”

To emphasis the effectiveness of a new tool, we always hear some people say it would make you “do more with less”. This is so attractive to Chief Officers. How would the other staffs think about this?

Dongshan River Water Park (冬山河親水公園).
The venue of  Yilan International Children's Folklore and Folkgame Festival (YICFFF, 宜蘭國際童玩藝術節). Yilan County, Taiwan. 

The problem of “do more with less”

With the word “less”, what does that mean? Does that imply we don’t need that much budgets anymore? Does that imply we don’t need more hardware? Does that imply the workforce would be cut down?

Threatening the market by “Wedge”? I don't think so.

A grass next to Taipei Botanical Garden (台北植物園), Taiwan

I just don't get it. Products such as iPhone/iPad are totally proprietary. And people still love them. Network devices are also proprietary. However, people just don't like proprietary network boxes and want them all to become as open as commodities?

Last Wednesday (June 18, 2014) Facebook announced the existence of their experimental in-house Top of Rack 40Gbps switch called “Wedge”. The basic ideas in many reports from the press (like this, this, and this) are: this would threaten existing market of network vendors such as Cisco.