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Title: Lacking Reason
Review: Over the course of 2008 I have been reading about autonomic computing concepts. I work with IT infrastructure, and the concept of autonomic computing is attractive for many reasons. I was attracted to this title because there seems to be few publications on the topic. I read the other reviews and understood that this book would cover high level concepts. What I found most disappointing was the lack of effort Murch put into validating his broad sweeping statements. He shows real world examples of some autonomic principles, but I found it is a stretch to use the examples to directly advocate autonomic computing. And most disappointing is that some of the arguments in the book are just false.The concepts in this book are powerful, and therefor it is not a total wasted read. However, I think it would be more enjoyed by someone who will not be directly involved in IT organizations or who is too naive to punch holes in the weak logic casually littered across the pages.
