"migrate", v.tr., a sort-of untracked sense

[Victor Steinbok]

I believe, we are focusing on the wrong thing. The definition refers to
"environment" and that's the determining factor--moving to a new
environment. The question of "data" is incidental--it is merely one of
many possible examples of migratable things, "program" being another one
mentioned. But there is little limitation in the definition on
unmentioned things.

I find the reference neither puzzling nor unusual. But, perhaps, I've
dealt with too many system migrations from one platform to another or
between multiple servers.

     VS-)

On 5/11/2012 2:02 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> On May 11, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>
>> To me an account is a form of data, and has been so since the development
>> of ledger books.
> OK; I guess I don't tend to think of an e-mail account as data, although I think of the messages it makes available to me as data.  My imagination is limited, I'm willing to concede.

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