EW

It is a great pleasure to have the SIGOPS EW in France again, 10 years after the Mont Saint-Michel workshop. While Mont Saint-Michel is surrounded by the sea, Saint-Emilion is amidst miles of vineyards. There is no tide here, even if one may refer to the level of wine in the bottles... Still, I am sure that Emilion will do as well as Michel did in inspiring fruitful discussions among us. In the event of a failure of the saint's spirit, I am sure that the wine cellar located underneath the meeting room in "Le chateau la Couspaude", a <I>Saint-Emilion grand cru classé</I>, will be an excellent backup."Can we really depend on an OS?", "In vino veritas", Baccus would have certainly answered.Thank you for coming to EW2002 and have a very enriching workshop.We had a total of 50 submissions which is slightly up from the previous workshop. Of these the PC selected sixteen for presentations; thanks to the PC for their work.I used a simple system for submission: merely e-mail. This, unfortunately, does not work perfectly; I "lost" several papers which delayed their review---apologies to those authors that had to wait past the notification deadline.The European Workshop is usually held in beautiful locations where the relaxed atmosphere can foster fruitful discussions between the participants. Gilles Muller has found a pearl of a location---and not just for wine lovers! And he has put in a tremendous effort to do the arrangements. I hope that you will all participate actively.The theme of the workshop "Can we really depend on an OS?" has been viewed from many different points as the presentations will show. The panel discussion will attack the issues head-on.