Pat may not remember the discussion, but over brandy with a great collection of architects in a Lake Tahoe resort some years ago his argument was that mainframe principles of shared services were a relic of a resource constrained environment, that these concerns no longer applied in distributed systems, and that mainframe proponents were aging Luddites that would die off soon enough. Full circle now -- come join us Pat!
"Cloud computing is sharing." Indeed...
Pat may not remember the discussion, but over brandy with a great collection of architects in a Lake Tahoe resort some years ago his argument was that mainframe principles of shared services were a relic of a resource constrained environment, that these concerns no longer applied in distributed systems, and that mainframe proponents were aging Luddites that would die off soon enough. Full circle now -- come join us Pat!