Saguaro

David Oppenheimer presented the second summary, on behalf of the Saguaro group. He noted that this group had a contentious discussion, and could only agree on one slide with a couple of high level points. The first point was entitled ``No-Futz Computing'', a term coined by Mary Baker to refer to the absence of a broad range of common headaches in computer systems. It implies avoidance of fuss in computing, and includes the ability of people to move anywhere, minimal wastage of people's time in system administration and related activities, and reliable infrastructure and universal interoperability. The second point was security, again ``no-futz'' in flavor.

By way of substantiation, Oppenheimer observed that a huge fraction of every user's time is squandered in ``futzing'' with the system today. This is biggest bottleneck in the performance of most systems. Since machines are cheap and people are expensive, striving to reduce the amount of ``futzing'' is the most important goal for researchers.

The reaction from the audience to the concept of ``no-futz computing'' was highly positive. The phrase seemed to capture what was latent in every group's thinking that afternoon. To much laughter, it was suggested that the ``FutzMark(TM)'' be henceforth recognized as the official benchmark of ``no-futz computing''.