Re: [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm article.rst

[Tuomas Lukka]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 03:47:43AM -0500, Toni Alatalo at Univ. of Oulu wrote:
> +Another motivation (right?) for the data sharing / data mobility is
> +collaboration. Within an organization or a project group, there often is a
> +shared file system, e.g. a file server in the local network, so that
> +different people do not need their personal copies of the data but can work
> +(synchronously) on the same items. Often, however, especially when
> +crossing organizationary boundaries there is no access each-others'
> +filesystems even though data is shared. In actual collaboration, where
> +several individuals work on the same items -- possibly at the sametime --
> +the data effectually forks. So similarly(?) to the the situation where a
> +particular user has data on different computers, data needs to be kept in
> +sync when there is collaboration.
> +

Refs: CVS, perforce, other versioning systems, ...

        Tuomas