In conclusion, LADIS 2008 seems to have been an unqualified success, and indeed, a far more
thought-provoking workshop than we three have attended in some time. The key was that LADIS
generated spirited dialog between distributed systems researchers and practitioners, but also that the
particular practitioners who participated shared so much of our background and experience. When
researchers and system builders meet, there is often an impedance mismatch, but in the case of
LADIS 2008 we managed to fill a room with people who share a common background and way of
thinking, and yet see the cloud computing challenge from very distinct perspectives