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Re:Variable Cost Living Sadly Doesn't Work by nkohari on Friday October 02, 2009 @02:43PM (#857693)
I don't think the metaphor works very well. Cloud hosting is much more like a hotel (or a hostel), since you stay on the same "infrastructure", but you don't have a dedicated physical location. Moving between infrastructure would be a nightmare for computing as well.
Re:Variable Cost Living Sadly Doesn't Work by arihelgason on Friday October 02, 2009 @02:55PM (#857727)
Rather, cloud hosting is a commodity.

There is much less qualitative differentiation than there is in accommodation.