The Platform of Clouds

We hear about the ‘Cloud’ at every turn lately, but the cloud has been coming for a long time, in many varied ways. The well known players are all household names: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Sun and more; but their ideas are closer than they would like to admit: offer reliable development platforms, with elastic storage services, to anyone who wants to write an application. I know, I might have over simplified that a bit, but not by much.

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