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

[Julia McCarthy <julia@us.ibm.com>]

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
julia@us.ibm.com
Tie/Line 349/8156
877-261-0391

Jay Nash <jay@o-ms.com>

01/16/2006 08:41 AM

Please respond to
jay

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

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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:
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> 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
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> *Jay Nash <jay@o-ms.com>*
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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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