Distributed Computing in the Modern Enterprise

Welcome to the Alphabet Soup edition of Queue. You are about to wade into a sea of buzzwords and acronyms, but the future of enterprise computing is on the other shore. The articles in this issue form a coherent yet occasionally contradictory set. Each presents a view of key technical solutions to the computing problems of the modern enterprise. Together, they describe a very important part of the future of computing for and by the enterprise. The authors emphasize different aspects. There remain disagreements about details and even about fundamental approaches. We may have several men describing an elephant, or there might actually be multiple elephants.