From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <05dbdcbbaa29fd9046f324ec57a42f07@proxima.alt.za> To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:58:21 +0200 From: lucio@proxima.alt.za In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 - the next 20 years Topicbox-Message-UUID: e546a196-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > there's no guarantee to a process running in a conventional > environment that files won't change underfoot. why would > condor extend a new guarantee? Because you have to migrate standard applications, not only applications that allow for migration. Consider a word processing session, for example. Of course, one can design applications differently and I'm sure cloud computing will demand a different paradigm, but that is not what's being discussed here. ++L