Comments on: The End of Desktops (and all your applications) http://www.tim-wood.net/research/2009/05/the-end-of-desktops-and-all-your-applications/ Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:33:51 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: twood http://www.tim-wood.net/research/2009/05/the-end-of-desktops-and-all-your-applications/comment-page-1/#comment-22 twood Fri, 08 May 2009 18:32:57 +0000 http://www.tim-wood.net/research/?p=70#comment-22 Amazon's EC2 is precisely such a service. Within a few minutes a small business can set up a new virtual machine and have it running within the cloud. But perhaps you are alluding to the difficulty of transitioning an application you already have to the cloud. That can be a little trickier, especially if it is a live, running system that can't easily be taken down. Amazon’s EC2 is precisely such a service. Within a few minutes a small business can set up a new virtual machine and have it running within the cloud.

But perhaps you are alluding to the difficulty of transitioning an application you already have to the cloud. That can be a little trickier, especially if it is a live, running system that can’t easily be taken down.

]]> By: elp http://www.tim-wood.net/research/2009/05/the-end-of-desktops-and-all-your-applications/comment-page-1/#comment-21 elp Fri, 08 May 2009 18:26:20 +0000 http://www.tim-wood.net/research/?p=70#comment-21 But there is still no service for a small business person to switch to cloud computing and avoid purchasing a server. But there is still no service for a small business person to switch to cloud computing and avoid purchasing a server.

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