Interesting article over at small bizpod if you are interesting in cloud computing and slightly more grounded view of it

For those of us that have been in computing for far too many years, it is hard to see why ‘cloud computing’ is actually that special and it is certainly not a new idea.

There is an ongoing pendulum effect in computing that swings between distributed and centralized computing architectures over time. When you cut away the hype and boil it down to its absolute basics; cloud computing is simply a centralized architecture with a novel charging mechanism applied to it.

So, without the benefit of reading Dale’s paper, I would suggest that the real innovation is simply in the commercial model rather than anything else.