Re: [sdd] [glossary] hosting environment (HE)

[Jay Nash <jay@o-ms.com>]

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Manage is a tough sell for me, it implies action. And I don't think the
HE is the thing doing the managing. I think a hosting environment is
where we put stuff.  Some types of stuff manage other stuff. All that
stuff sits somewhere.  That somewhere is the HE.

If we're agreed that the HE isn't itself, by definition, doing
something, then I think store and execute should be fine.

If the HE is something other than a place to put stuff,  I'll concede
the point.

Jay Nash



Julia McCarthy wrote:
> 
> Files might work.  But I wonder if there could be a hosting environment
> that manages only runtime resources that exist in memory?  I think
> resource might be a better term.  "Hosting environments manage
> resources." That phrase sounds right to me.  Which brings another point
> about the proposed definition.  The terms "store and execute" may not be
> broad enough.  Hosting environments also can manage updates and deletes.
>  I think the term manage would do.  That brings us to this definition:
> 
> Hosting Environment:  A computational resource that manages resources.    
> 
> HEs really are resources and they can manage other HEs as well as other
> types of resources. But this raises the question of whether or not
> "computational" is sufficient to distinguish between HEs and other
> resources.  I don't think it is.  So I'm not proposing the above
> definition as final.  
> 
> Of course, we would have to add a definition for resource to the
> glossary.  I don't think there is one now.  It might be easier to jump
> out of order and define resource first.  I think there will be many
> other terms besides HE that need to be defined in terms of how they
> affect resources.
> 
> Julia McCarthy
> Autonomic Computing Enablement
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> *Jay Nash <jay@o-ms.com>*
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> 01/16/2006 08:41 AM
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> We could change _software_ to _files_
> I was trying to avoid a long list of other terms (artifacts, IU's), etc.
> Fundamentally I think we mean "a place you put/run _stuff_"
> I'd be ok with _files_
> 
> Jay Nash
> 
> Julia McCarthy wrote:
>>>
>>> Use of the term software might be too limiting.  Are database table
>>> definitions considered software?  What about Word documents and
>>> spreadsheets?
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>>> Julia McCarthy
>>> Autonomic Computing Enablement
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>>> *Jay Nash <jay@o-ms.com>*
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>>> 01/14/2006 07:11 PM
>>> Please respond to
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>>> I'd like to propose a simplified definition-
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>>> Proposed Definition:
>>> A computational resource which stores and/or executes software.
>>>
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