Thanks for the correction. Anyway the discussion of real-time vs. batch has been going on since (before) I grew up. I would even argue that the term "scalabilit

Thanks for the correction. Anyway the discussion of real-time vs. batch has been going on since (before) I grew up. I would even argue that the term "scalability" bandied about these days is really a reversion to batch processing - even caching algorithms are a form of batch processing.