2004/01/09
I’m enjoying Tim Bray’s technology predictor success matrix series very much. It gave me an idea too. I hereby present the “Internet scale distributed system predictor success matrix, aka ISDSPSM.
The predictor I’m going to use is “Uses a constrained interface”. That is, whether or not the interaction semantics between components are constrained in any way. The technologies are a mix of systems that attempted to be deployed on the Internet at one time.
| Winners | score | Losers | score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web | 10 | CORBA | 0 |
| 10 | DCOM | 0 | |
| IM | 10 | DCE | 0 |
| IRC | 6 | ONC | 0 |
| Napster | 7 | RMI | 0 |
| DNS | 10 | Linda | 10 |
I included Linda to show that constrained interfaces are not a sufficient condition for success. But they sure seem necessary, wouldn’t you say?
no comment until now