How the Red Dog dream team built a cloud OS from scratch

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Keeping it simple is good.

Thanks for your attention to my post requesting a definition of Red Dog yesterday.

I was hoping it might be in the introduction. But I did encounter more later:

Calling Red Dog an ?operating system? is an oversimplification, as team members are quick to point out. But each of its components has a parallel in the modern-day operating system world. Red Dog handles switches, load balancers and servers the way a client OS handles device drivers.

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Well, okay, though keeping it simple is good, over-simplification is bad, I guess.

That gave a picture I thought I understood, until:

But more and more teams at the company are being moved to the Red Dog platform, starting with Live Mesh, HealthVault and Live Meeting. External beta testers of Microsoft?s .Net Services/Live Services platform also are starting to test Red Dog?s limits.

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So Red Dog is a "platform"? Is the rest of Azure involved in this use of Red Dog?

Just trying to keep things sorted out.

Posted by: Anton Philidor   Posted on: 02/24/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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