Hi all,

        Last Friday, I gave an example (really basic) of what the new
virtual computing world would be like.  My example used the concept that two
companies (one on each U.S. coast) could use the same computer without
owning the computer, or conflicting with each others process time.

        One list member responded that this was the old "charge-back
system", and while in some ways it is, what I left out in my example was the
very important point that in the virtual computing world, you will not know
(or care) where the computer(s) that you are using are physically located.
Your process may be distributed over the entire globe, and using a hundred
different boxes at the same time.

        So, I hope this helps clear up my example (that appeared to confuse
more than it helped to explain).   ;-)


Ray Shahan

"There is so much good in the worst of us,
and so much bad in the best of us,
that it behooves none of us
to talk about the rest of us"
                  --Robert Louis Stevenson?


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