“All programs in the future will be written in a way that there is no single point of failure. There's no one server that can die and take down the service.”

Ray Ozzie's view from the clouds http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10400244-56.html in CNET (18 November 2009).

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“All programs in the future will be written in a way that there is no single point of failure. There's no one server that can die and take down the service.”

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