On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:42 PM, J.R. Mauro<jrm8...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen<eri...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:41 PM, J.R. Mauro<jrm8...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:16 PM, ron minnich<rminn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:18 PM, J.R. Mauro<jrm8...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> they'll make it into mainline and then we just need to focus on
>> education by presenting demos at places like OLS, Plumbers, and LCA --
>> and maybe get some good video podcast tutorials up on YouTube to get
>> people wanting and using the features. Of course the main thing is
>> finding a niche that needs the features and selling them on it. The
>> focus on cloud computing and other cluster type solutions in
>> mainstream computing may be helpful there.
>
> Yes, showing people the benefits of /net and how simple clustering is
> will be the path to victory. People will be amazed when they see how
> easy it is to make 5 computers pretend to be one.
>
I can validate this to some extent. The ability to transitively mount
/net was one of the most popular features of the Library OS
environment I worked on a few years back. It was really easy for
Linux and UNIX minded folks to grasp how powerful it was:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1254810.1254817
-eric
