How Facebook is eating the $140 billion hardware market (FB, HPQ)

It started out as a controversial idea inside Facebook. In four short years, it has turned the $141 billion data center computer hardware industry on its head. Facebook's extraordinary Open Compute Project is doing for hardware what Linux, Android, and many other popular products did for software: making it free and "open source." That means that anyone can look at, use, or modify the designs of the hugely expensive computers that big companies use to run their operations. All for free. Contract...