[ Your Name ] would like to inform you about this article on Complexity Digest 2008.19 - 06 http://comdig.unam.mx/index.php?id_issue=2008.19#30126 8-May-2008 [ Your Message ] PDF files of our annual editions are available at http://www.comdig.de/AnnualEditions.html A letter from Gottfried Mayer to our readers and friends is at http://www.comdig.de/GMLetter.html Head In The Clouds, GlobeandMail.com Excerpts: The next giant leap in technology is here: selling power and server space like a metered utility. Everyone expected Google to be the first to pull it off, but it's being trounced by an unexpected player: Amazon. (...) Most people think of Amazon as just an online retailer, selling books and music. But for the past year or so, the company has also been selling something else: computing power and server space. And the impact of that business is potentially much farther reaching, particularly for small, and even medium-sized and larger, companies. Source: Head In The Clouds[ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080506.TQ9PG20/TPStory/Business/columnists ], Mathew Ingram, Ken Hunt, GlobeandMail.com, 08/05/06 You can discuss this article on Articles Forum http://comdig.unam.mx/topic.php?id_article=30126