ecn at fault-tolerant.org wrote: > > So I'm interested in business-systems-as-dataflow. Anyone else? Well, it appears as though Josh Prismon is. A couple days ago he wrote that message titled "Quest for Understanding": Josh Prismon wrote: > > The boss opens up the same browser, and hits his inbox. There is a little > application there called "Request for a new PC by XXXXX". He clicks Aprove > on that. His machine has a proccess called "approve" which then takes that > information and sends it to a Purchasing server on the other side of the > world. > > The Purchising server automagically purchases the server, debits the amount > out of the departments budget, and sends confirmation letters.... It seems we have a couple people interested in the same thing here. Jeff -- J.W. Bizzaro jeff at bioinformatics.org Director, Bioinformatics.org: The Open Lab http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. --