At 07:11 AM 3/16/2006, Joe Landman wrote:
I would say that there is more potential for a clever soul to reprogram
the guts of Matlab, etc., to transparently share the work across multiple
machines. I think that's in the back of the mind of MS, as they move
toward a services environment and .NET
:)
So imagine if you will an LD_PRELOAD environment variable which points
a users code over to the relevant libraries which work their magic behind
the scenes. I would be hard pressed to imagine using this for Excel, but
could see it for Matlab.
The underlying stuff behind excel could accomodate a distributed backend
without too much trouble. That's the whole idea of .NET; it provides an
abstraction layer so the user application doesn't care or know whether the
resource is local.
Jim
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