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I found LinkedIn profiles for Sunil Sarin, Mark Dewitt, and Ronni Rosenberg who all worked at CCA during this time period. I've gone ahead and sent them each a
by radlad 3y ago
I found LinkedIn profiles for Sunil Sarin, Mark Dewitt, and Ronni Rosenberg who all worked at CCA during this time period.
I've gone ahead and sent them each a message asking if they might be able to make the paper available.
If you'd like to get in contact with them yourself and are having trouble finding their LinkedIn, shoot me an email and I'll be happy to provide you links.
- radlad 3y agoI received a response from Dr. Rosenberg: > Yes, I was involved, 35 years ago! I believe it was an internal CCA paper. I don't have a copy and I have no idea how to get it. Sorry about that. It does seem to be the earliest reference to "shard" in the DB context. (The other early reference pointed to in Wikipedia is from much later, 1997.) > Fortunately, you need not go back 35 years to read about sharding; it's easy to get current info. Cheers. I've now sent a message to Andy Youniss, CEO of Rocket Software to see if he can help.
- mindcrime 3y agoI've now sent a message to Andy Youniss, CEO of Rocket Software to see if he can help. I suspect that if that memo lives on anywhere, it's somewhere in the bowels of Xerox. I say that based on observing that: 1. In the paper by Ronni L. Roseniberg at https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA209126.pdf https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA209126.pdf the citation to the SHARD paper changed to Sunil Sarin, Mark DeWitt, and Ronni Rosenberg, "Overview of SHARD: A System for Highly Available Replicated Data," Technical Report 162, Xerox Advanced Information Technology (May 1988). 2. Per Wikipedia[1] Crowntek sold Computer Corporation of America's Advanced Information Technology division to Xerox Corporation in 1988. To me this suggests that it was the "Advanced Information Technology division" specifically which would have had the paper in question, and that bit of CCA wound up with Xerox. That said, it can't hurt to reach out anybody connected to this in any way. You never know who will wind up "knowing a guy who knows a gal, who knows a ..." or whatever. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Corporation_of_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Corporation_of_Americ...
- mindcrime 3y agoI also sent a note to another former Computer Corporation of America employee that I found on LinkedIn. I don't know them personally, but we live near each other and have some common connections, so maybe they will at least receive my unsolicited message with some favor.
- mindcrime 3y agoFWIW, I did get a response from the individual mentioned above. However they were unable to help with finding a copy of the paper. The search continues...
- marifjeren 3y agoSomeone who isn't me is getting in touch with a computer science librarian at a top 10 university about this paper. I'll update here with whatever I (don't) learn.
- marifjeren 3y agoNo dice. The search continues..