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Re: [dist-obj] Ubiquitous Virus (was: The Future's so bright...)

On Wed, 10 May 2000, Sundar Narasimhan wrote:

--]And we have BillG pontificating about "integration" in interop.. with
--]no credible or serious challenge that can be translated so the masses
--]can understand.
--]

There is always the old turn of phrase :never put all your eggs in one
basket". As we are seeing with most of the larger "intergrated" systems
this hold true.

What truly holds my interest is the distribution of the eggs. A real world
example being Gnutella. Where Napster fell back on the "eggs in one
basket" take with its central server and CEO centric postioning, Gnutella
truly broke the functionality across such a depth that breaking a few of
its eggs does little to harm the whole basket.

Like every good project of course gnutella needs some work. The dev side
again is a great example of how useable_idea + accessable_dev =
growing_and_functioning_app

Watching projects like Cosm, process tree, Seti@home and distributed.net
also give me a warm glow. In wht appears to be a commercialization of the
process I have heard of three differnt endevours to take this type of
dsitrib into a cash making situatuion.

BillG, indeed all OS and App makers, need to come to the discovery that
the next wave has already splashed down on them. Just like every one and
thier third cousin was touting themselves as Internet Ready, so to will we
see something like that with distrib process, though I doubt it will be
called such. There will have to be an Ad Freindly name contest...:)-



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