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To: Robert who wrote (21709)	10/24/1999 1:24:00 PM
From: Stormweaver	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Good points again. I think we already have sufficient bandwidth and the software building blocks for a true distributed application. Distributed storage probably being the next hurdle in app design. What could drive this move ...(IMHO) As a business I want to reduce risk of failure - I would rather distribute my business risk across N machines rather than two; no matter how large those two are. Also, as a business I want a cost effective, high performance, high availability system that is as vendor independant as possible. Ideally I can plug an NT box into my node group of Sun machines and scale my distributed app. I can later on unplug one of my Sun or NT boxes and _not_ have my business go down. I see Java as the ideal language/environment to build distributed solutions; platform independance and ease of development. Good chatting with you. Cheers James