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On 01/20/2012 07:14 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: >> Maybe I'm late to the IT party, but how do you mean that it's going >> back to the way it used to be? I've never really experienced (that I > In the old-old days, only the largest institutions could afford computers. Smaller organizations leased time on their iron. That's just how things were done. > > And that's what you do today when you buy time on Amazon's or Google's data centers: you lease time on their iron. The nature of the iron has changed. It's now a huge cluster of relatively small units instead of a room-sized monolith but the use model is the same and just as importantly the reason is the same. > > Exactly. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
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