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Poll: Cloudcomputing, do you use it ?

1 points by jacquesm ↗ HN
Are you a user of a cloud computing service ? Are you happy about it ?

If you are using cloud services right now you can vote twice, also once for which service you are using.

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baba
Well most folks don't know they are using a computing cloud. Even as basic as using something email from Google or Yahoo is based on a cloud computing infrastructure. Within the next 5 to 7 years most folks would have migrated to cloud computing completely without even realizing that they have transitioned into it. That is why folks at MSFT should seriously read Jim Collins new book "How the Mighty Fall" cuz they are stuck in time and unable to make the necessary changes. Cloud Computing will mean the focus will all be driven through the browser and the Operating System could pretty much be anything and thereby undermine vendors who rely on selling Operating Systems for their main source of revenue. It may seem unrealistic but Google and Apple may merge as equals as the realization of Cloud Computing comes to fruition.
jacquesm
hm, you are right but that was not the use I had in mind, I was wondering about technical usage, in other words use to base some project on these technologies. Not some offering by the same companies that offer the cloud services as an end user.
ScottWhigham
Does using a CDN count in any way? It's not "cloud computing" in a strict sense but it is in a more liberal sense.