RE: wow. cloud computing is getting serious (oracle + amazon + openworld announcement)

seems to me the big catch is upload bandwidth. Now if they provide a way to send in your initial bulk by sneakernet (or trucknet) so you can keep your upload bandwidth down to something just proportional to changes, I think this will indeed be the advent of a watershed event. Data will nearly never be lost, and eventually everyone will have access to everything in the cloud, by hook or by crook.  

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Stephens, Chris
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 9:50 AM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: wow. cloud computing is getting serious (oracle + amazon + openworld announcement)  

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/09/hello-oracle.html  

I guess the 'big' announcement isn't until tomorrow.  

For the first time in a while I really feel like we are seeing a new paradigm in computing actually taking hold. .maybe I just don't have enough caffeine in me.  

Chris

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