Re: [DotGNU]What IS .NET, really?

[Jeremy Petzold]

I think that we need to write down a solid set of features that we want in the 
system so that we can all see what it is that we want, i.e. the auth system 
must be redundant, must have a resync feature, must have rollback ability, 
information must exist where the user wishes it to either locally or remotely, 
ect. 

once we have that we can discuss our options for a solution.



On Fri, 13 July 2001, Norbert Bollow wrote:

> 
> I wrote:
> 
> > : DotGNU is about preventing .NET from ever really happening by
> > : creating something that meets the needs of end-users and
> > : e-commerce businesses better than .NET while at the
> > : same time avoiding the ethical problems of Microsoft's
> > : approach.
> > 
> > :Greetings, Norbert.
> > 
> > 
> > That sounds good.
> > 
> > What 'needs' are you reffering to?  Other than authintication?
> 
> Here is a real life example:  I run a mailing list hosting
> business.  I can make mission-critical lists extra reliable by
> replicating them across two servers, with different OS, on
> different network segments, in different states of the US, with
> bandwidth from different telcos.
> 
> With the set-up described above, chances are that the
> two servers won't go down at the same time.  One of the servers
> holds the master subscriber database, one of them holds a mirror
> of the subscriber database.  If the server with the master
> subscriber database is down, the list still works (it can still
> forward mail, because that requires only read access to the
> subscriber database), but people cannot sub or unsub.
> 
> If I allow both servers to handle subs and unsubs, then there
> needs to be a system for getting the subscriber databases in
> sync.  There are many aspects of the problem "getting a
> replicated database back in sync" that are totally independant
> of the fact that I'm talking about mailing list subscriptions.
> The same kind of problems happens with a web-based
> authentication system where the data is replicated (or reasons
> of reliability) across multiple servers.  That's why I'm
> proposing that functionality for journalling and, when necessary,
> rollback of database transactions should be built into the DotGNU
> system.
> 
> I don't think .NET is going to give me this functionality I
> need.  I'd have to use DotGNU even if I were a fan of Microsoft!
> 
> Greetings, Norbert.
> 
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Regards,

Jeremy
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