A passage in Charles Nutter’s reaction to MagLev caught my eye today:
First off, they demonstrated its distributed object database automatically synchronizing globally-reachable state across multiple VMs. It’s an amazing new idea that the world has never really seen…
except that it isn’t. This is based on existing OODB technology that Gemstone and others have been promoting […]
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