In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Ok, so if we include yahoo mail and gmail in "cloud computing" then I >guess usenet is also cloud computing.
Usenet actually is a good example of cloud computing, but only at the article distribution level. Netnews clients are *not* examples of cloud computing (except maybe Google Groups). The question is whether there exists an API and infrastructure that supports distributed computing and storage. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
