Is it the ultimate innovation or is it the next buzzword managers and sales staff members must record into their notebooks? After reading some material it doesn't mean more for me than a clustered client-server architecture where processing capacity and memory can be hired and clients are generally web browsers or other applications. It's not a big novelty form the developers' point of view so first of all we got a new phrase for the hot water. Don't mix it with 'grid computing' where real math computations are running on a statically or dynamically built distributed network (SETI@home for an example) and clients are active participants of the process. Instead of this, with cloud computing, you connect to the service and use it. So I don't get again where is the magic. (Maybe the magic is in the ability of obtaining a large amount of personal data and money from the users.) I can imagine an architecture which discovers (sourceforge does this) or even deplo