It's a good thing we're extensible because Sun apparently just invented teleportation...
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From:
Craig McClanahan <craigmcc@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:50 AM
Subject: Re: Microsoft files cloud data portability patent
To:
cloudforum@googlegroups.comOn Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:24 PM,
tlukasik@exnihilum.com
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tlukasik@exnihilum.com> wrote:
> According to the referenced article:
>
> "According to the filing, Microsoft's technology will preserve the data, meta-data, or service that's being terminated, roll it back to a state that allows migration, find a similar service comparable to the one already use, and then provide the migration."
>
Interesting that this comes out on the same day Sun announces the new
"teleportation" feature of VirtualBox 3.1[1].
Craig
[1]
http://virtualbox.org