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From: Jeff Tseng <jtseng@fnal.gov>
Subject: Re: Picking up on database export and offsite needs / grid use
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Hi Stefano,

We're aware of the database problem---indeed, the general class of
problems associated with centralized services---and it forms one part of
how we're trying to develop the future DH system.  It comes up in
discussions with the CD about such products as SAM (which, as I think
you hinted, will in its current form make the DB problem even worse). 
It's not clear to me that the principal developers have yet grasped the
extent of the problem, or whether it should be solved with more than
kludges.  I think we're moving in the right direction, but we are
continuing to work on that.

No magic bullets yet.

Jeff