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Turning down the LAMP: Software specialization for the cloudSeveral years ago, a reading group I was in read about the Flux OSKit Project, which aimed to provide a modular basis for operating systems. One of the topics of discussion was the possibility of, and possible benefits of, an application-specific OS. (For example, the fearful spectre of EmacsOS was raised.) Today, I ran across "Turning down the LAMP: Software specialization for the cloud", which actually makes a pretty strong case for the idea on a virtual machine infrastructure,
As one example,
On the other hand, I suspect that this "unashamedly academic" idea may already be advancing into the commercial arena, if I am correctly reading between the lines of the VMware vFabric tc ServerTM marketing material. By Tommy McGuire at 2010-10-04 19:29 | DSL | General | Implementation | Software Engineering | other blogs | 14825 reads
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