Distributed System as an Enterprise System

• There are many problems in using traditional distributed system model for enterprise computing. Look at

“A Note on Distributing Computing” by Jim Waldo, Geoff Wyant, Ann Wollarth and Sam Kendall of Sun labs.

-- current distributed system paradigm works well for small systems dealing with single address space but fails very badly for dynamically changing global address spaces.

• We have seen advances in code mobility, data mobility,etc. But the distributed system architecture/principles are yet to evolve in any significant way.

• Focus on distribution.

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