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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (54722)	4/28/1998 8:00:00 PM
From: Francis Chow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

<I'm not saying mainframes will die. This is not a zero sum game.> Right. I see a hetrogeneous environment, mainframes, LANs, CORBA, client-server, Java, and browsers - all of which will become a big management headache.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (54722)	4/28/1998 8:06:00 PM
From: Francis Chow	Respond to of 186894

Michelle you should check out platform.com. They make software for distributed load sharing. Many big customers, including AMD (that small dog that keeps biting Intel on the ankle) are using their software, and giving it rave reviews. The basic idea is their software will divide up a complex batch job and farm it out in pieces to any machine on a network which is idle for more than 15 minutes. If a user returns before a job completes then it is suspended or aborted. It's one of those things where you would think the preprocessing and network traffic overheads would be too high, but in practice it seems to work very well.