From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 19:04:24 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <284C69AC-98F4-49A9-8857-C48D1E9A64AC@sun.com> References: <15070.1228591717@lunacy.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu> <284C69AC-98F4-49A9-8857-C48D1E9A64AC@sun.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] (no subject) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5c4419c8-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > This one is easy: Plan 9 (and 9P in particular) doesn't have to have > the redeeming quality of high adoption rate in order to justify > an excessive engineering complexity. It is not complex at all. > It is small and elegant. Whether that compactness and elegance > sometimes prevents it from being considered "enterprise grade" > is an open question (at least for me it is). The experience of > Coraid suggests that it might actually be a nice tool even for those > kinds of problems. i believe the term of art is "enterpriseiness". - erik