Andreas,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Oberhack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Hi Alex, Nader,
> 
> first of all: Thanks fort he excellent analysis Nader. You are really
> giving a great outline what one could do!

+1 to that and we're glad to have your presence here.

> >
> > Ok you have me totally depressed and thinking this is near impossible
> > now :-(.
> 
> The question is, whether really want to do that all! Let's have a look
> at the requirements first.

You made very good points that I snipped out below.  Occasionally I just
need to stop and look at the big picture.  Thanks for pressing pause and
showing us the light.

> So do we need distribution for scalability? I would say now!

After your comments I would have to agree with you that fault 
tolerance is most critical.  

> My conclusion: we have to think about fault tolerance as the main issue.
> That's it. Than let's switch to application side and solve business
> semantics - that's the far more appealing part in the business
> application arena! That's why Merlin rocks - a clear separation of
> business logic and technical issues is possible by design!

Very nicely put I'm no longer depressed :-).  It is very feasible 
especially with Leo's last email to build in fault tolerance without
bending over backwards.

Alex



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