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<p><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Sorry, Re-posting this with [Heat] in the subject line, because many of us have filters based on [Heat] in the subject line. </font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Hello,</font><font size="3" face="serif"><br>
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A few us at IBM studied Steve Baker's proposal on HOT Software Configuration. Overall the proposed constructs and syntax are great -- we really like the clean syntax and concise specification of components. We would like to propose a few minor extensions that help with better expression of dependencies among components and resources, and in-turn enable cross-vm coordination. We have captured our thoughts on this on the following Wiki page </font><font size="3" face="serif"><br>
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We would like to discuss these further ... please post your comments and suggestions.</font><font size="3" face="serif"><br>
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Thank you,<br>
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Lakshminarayanan Renganarayana<br>
Research Staff Member<br>
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center</font><br>
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