On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:57:04PM +0200, Justin Finnerty alleged:
> I think the difficulty is, as Garrick pointed out, the grey area of what
> is middleware.  (It is late at night here so you might have to excuse any
> perceived levity.) The *ultimate* definition of middleware: "Middleware"
> is what middle-management uses to manage resources. Thus the torque server
> is a core sysadmin functionality as it enables the resources while the
> scheduler and queue definition tools are middleware.

No levity was implied.  "middleware" and related ilk are marketing terms.
Don't fall into their trap!

 
-- 
Garrick Staples, GNU/Linux HPCC SysAdmin
University of Southern California

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