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- From: myoung@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
- Subject: Re: Today's Problem
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.151243.4793@enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Reply-To: myoung@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
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- Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
- References: <1992Sep4.131447.18263@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>,<187slsINNg8b@nigel.msen.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 15:12:43 GMT
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- In article <187slsINNg8b@nigel.msen.com>, emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
- >bantha.decnet.lockheed.com!young writes:
- >:
- >: Far into the future (mid 1993) server nomenclature is fading from
- >: our language, being replaced by server "waves" which migrate about
- >: the virtual path networks (enabled by wave interpreters at each node).
- >
- >Not.
- >
- >Mid 1993 is near future, just about "now", as far as building
- >administrative tools goes. Can you imagine trying to manage a network
- >that was full of random processes that swoop down and wreak havoc on your
- >disks? And worse yet "interpreters" that could download and possibly
- >execute unfriendly codes? No way.
- >
- >--Ed
- Any solution which solves an important set of customer problems will
- be deployed. If a major company, and can get a network
- technology which increases their ability to gather and use distributed
- information, then they're going to get that technology.
-
- Multi-tasking operating systems, like OS/2, are now being deployed
- across the desktops of a million users. If the system manager can
- deploy network wide processes to manage these things, distribute information,
- perform automatic backups, execute distributed file searches, reduce
- network management costs, then he will. Whatever security problems he
- sees he will get resolved with his software vendor.
-
- The fact that these migratory processes "swoop down" and affect local
- desktops is what gives them their power. You cannot ignore power like that
- for very long.
-
-