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To: Scumbria who wrote (134944)	5/14/2001 5:44:01 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

scumbria, Any network of desktop computers is a cluster. Do they have to be on the desktop? Windows is not a good OS to support the development of useful software for clusters. Why not, they sit on the desktop.

To: Scumbria who wrote (134944)	5/14/2001 6:12:41 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, re: "It is being used by most businesses. Any network of desktop computers is a cluster." I'm starting to agree with Eric. I thought we were talking about an effective "network cluster", where you could use distributed computing. So I guess the your opinion of the downside, that I asked you about before, is that it doesn't work well with Windows? And Windows is the prefered OS of most IT managers. So the trade-off isn't currently appealing? John