From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <13426df10910261700p44f97793v9207b968b9e5a4c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:21:32 -0600 Message-ID: <14ec7b180910262021x7b2a0a35t36aa5e3004cde74f@mail.gmail.com> From: andrey mirtchovski To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] go to this site Topicbox-Message-UUID: 913cd52e-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 "Clouds, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Put All My Computing Where It Don't Belong." I admit to a certain amount of glee seeing the news about major outages of cloud services appear with predictable regularity: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/22/cloud_storage_concerns/ for example. andrey ps: at a recent grid conference somebody suggested putting all "the grids" in "the cloud". i'm still unsure whether this is the best or the worst idea ever. pps: p9 (in its 9p form) does have a place in clouds, making things work and gluing things together underneath it all, unnoticed by anybody. pity i couldn't submit a paper to IW9P.