What!? Did you even read the article? It covers the fact that files are network transparent...i.e. every file is available everywhere on the network. You really should give the article a read and maybe read up on Plan 9 a bit. You're missing out on some really interesting stuff.
One condition for a scalable system is a network interface imho.
Cron doesn't have that as well, which usually leads to application level complexity to avoid running the same cron on multiple machines.