On Jan 24, 2008, at 1:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When wintelinux comes crashing down through an inability to sustain
growth, Plan 9 will be a good candidate for the next hardware
platform. There will be others, all of them, hopefully, skinnier than
their predecessors.
I just saw the following in another mailing list. It seems to echo
your sentiments:
Jay Levitt wrote:
Eclipse (and Java in general) is a great example of what I call
"stratification" - the re-implementation of lower layers in ever-
higher
layers, because nobody even remembers the lower layer is there
anymore.
If you build a mail system that relies on a database, someone will
inevitably decide that a mail system, with its built-in queueing,
routing
and simplicity, is a great transport for asynchronous replication,
which in
turn, can be used to create a distributed file system. And once
you've got
a file system, well, wouldn't it be great to get a database running
on it?
Gary Wright
