Media type: E-Article Title: Guest Editors’ message Contributor: Alonso, Gustavo; Lomet, David; Dayal, Umesh imprint: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2008 Published in: The VLDB Journal Language: English DOI: 10.1007/s00778-007-0085-7 ISSN: 1066-8888; 0949-877X Keywords: Hardware and Architecture ; Information Systems Origination: Footnote: