Over past few years, I've spent a lot of time thinking about dependency management, usually in the context of NHibernate and Castle Windsor.  The truth is that the problems these projects have are the problems any sufficiently complex open source project has.  So, having been playing with Clojure for several days I've got some thoughts about how the other half lives: For the most part, the JVM has been phenomenally stable for the last few years, so there's no analogue of the multiplicity of versions of .NET and Silverlight just isn't a problem for them.  Another way of saying...

No really, what's actually on your server?  If you're first answer isn't "erm" you're either very good or don't understand the question.  Servers are huge, they can store War and Peace on their hard drives without you even noticing.  For that matter, they can store any number of PDFs of books on patterns and practices without any appreciable benefit to civilization, but I don't think that's really the fault of the servers.  It's practically impossible to really know what's on there.  What's worse, the way most people do development, they make the job harder for themselves. I had a meeting with...