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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] 2 things
Date: Fri,  5 Oct 2007 21:59:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8e017a45bf8094a1b4111f57034a4b01@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0710051755330.28724-100000@multivac.sdsc.edu>

> Ok, I guess I just can't see it; While it may be possible (and good!) to
> let your plan 9 fileserver be a data repository, I'd think that good
> middleware needs to be OS-agnostic, so as to be isolated from the details
> of things like filesystem implementation.

good middleware.  i'd never thought of combining that adjective with that
noun.  (or is middleware officially a pronoun?)

what's the limit to this sort of indirection?  does someone decide that some
middleware agnostic layer needs to be built, so developers don't have to
bother with the little details of their middleware?

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-06  1:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-04 15:45 ron minnich
2007-10-04 15:52 ` Lluís Batlle
2007-10-04 17:09 ` Geoffrey Avila
2007-10-05  0:42   ` Adrian Tritschler
2007-10-05  1:00   ` ron minnich
2007-10-05  5:07     ` Geoffrey Avila
2007-10-05 20:56       ` ron minnich
2007-10-06  1:37         ` Geoffrey Avila
2007-10-06  1:59           ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2007-10-06 10:18             ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-10-06 10:44               ` Charles Forsyth

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