cloud computing

If you like to go to libraries you must have seen or used many "library terminals" with character based displays, black-and-white or black-and-green displays. They are pretty functional and enterprise users were exposed to them for a long time, but the graphical display has made them obsolete no matter how efficient and functional they were. We like colors and beautiful pictures and X terminals were simply too slow to provide a usable client-server environment.

The recent debate on whether Cloud Computing is a revolution or just an annoying ideology reveals how obsessed we can become with our own challenges. The owner of a large data center might find that the "cloud" is an expensive alternative with less control and a small enterprise might want to carefully think about its hosting and managed platform options. But the real hero of the Cloud Computing Era will be the talented teenager who will develop the next YouTube or Twitter in a few hours on a cloudy Sunday afternoon.