Re:Dropbox: The hottest startup you've never heard of
by kahawe on Thursday March 17, 2011 @06:20AM
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It still is a horrible term, as are most buzz words and hypes.
And secondly, like it or not, it is nothing new - not even a new concept. See e.g. grid computing and what Foster et al. describe as "utility computing" in their vision; it makes cloud computing look more like a sub-category.
I have the same feeling about "web 2.0" - it was merely "normal people" catching up with the tech savvy crowd on a large scale.
And secondly, like it or not, it is nothing new - not even a new concept. See e.g. grid computing and what Foster et al. describe as "utility computing" in their vision; it makes cloud computing look more like a sub-category.
I have the same feeling about "web 2.0" - it was merely "normal people" catching up with the tech savvy crowd on a large scale.