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Re: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Apple Store...

Luis Sala — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:11:57 -0000

James, I too have picked up Cloud Studio, but don't forget ElasticFox! It's a Firefox extension that pretty much does everything under the sun all without having to fire up Eclipse or use the command-line tools.

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Re: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Apple Store...

jamesurquhart — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:04:22 -0000

Almost 3 years since I owned a Mac. That's forever in technology years.

I agree whole heartedly about the opportunity for companies to build "everyguy/gal" friendly interfaces to cloud capacity allocation and management. I once thought building such a thing myself, but I was concerned about standards, etc., and getting locked into supporting one vendor. I was an idiot, of course, in the sense that the people doing this today for EC2 look like they've found a growing and enthusiastic market.

Re: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Apple Store...

lancew — Thu, 22 May 2008 04:45:21 -0000

LOL... liked the tale.

The cloud is ldefinitey the home of personal servers/applications in the future. Once people like you mention (and of course www.rightscale.com ) make it that bit easier for "Joe Public" to use it'll be interesting to see how it develops.

I have taken to building test servers on EC2, as it is cheap, easy, fast and when I am done with it... it just goes "Poof!" and is gone. :-)

Enjoy the Mac, it's been how long now?