paulruizendaal wrote:

> --- In Firebird-Architect@yahoogroups.com, Jim Starkey <jstarkey@...>
> wrote:
>
> Jim,
>
> You are probably aware of them already, but the folks at sprout-
> clustrix (US based start-up, few $ mln funding) seem to be working on
> the very ideas being discussed in this list.
>
> www.startuply.com/Jobs/Core_Software_Development_Engineer_115_1.aspx
>

I don't think so. A distributed lock manager is definitely the wrong
way to go. Little clusters, sure, but anything synchronous is going to
be a problem in an open ended cloud.