--- In [email protected], I am the eternal <l.shad...@...> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Bhairitu <noozg...@...> wrote: > > > > The tech industries are always inventing things to make money for > > themselves. Most are a waste of time. The real solution would > > be to get rid of the need to keep inventing shit just to survive. > > It's a very screwed up dog eat dog world we live in. Bring in > > the asteroid. ;-) > > Sorry but I see the utility for cloud computing. It's cheap, > it's on demand, it's flexible as heck (a dozen different > operating systems and machines, dozens of database and > application software supported).
So they're trying to reinvent the wheel with a Java for the Web. :-) Probably because IBM is trying to buy Sun, and will soon own Java. The "resizability" is a plus, and I mentioned that earlier. The biggest problem I see with this idea is privacy. It forces you to trust the provider, and that provider (Amazon) is reportedly one of the biggest culprits in the business in terms of scouring discussion groups and other sources for lists of email addresses to feed its own seemingly never-ending Amazon spam machines and rule-based "tailored to the user" marketing. I cannot for a moment believe that they would not scan your application and add its users to their spam list as well. But here's how to find out. Call them and ask them about setting up a cloud application, but demand a clause in the contract that says that if any of your customers find themselves on an Amazon-related spam list that they were not on already, 1) Amazon has defaulted on the contract, and 2) they owe you a predetermined penalty for violating privacy. See how they react.
