Cloud computing is just another executive buzz word Ponzi scheme to con a bunch of money out of the everyday honest IT/DBA/Developer workman. Let's join the cloud AND fire a bunch of our IT/DEV people. Just replace the word cloud with IBM and you can resubmitt all the same projects from the 1960's and 70's. Cloud is just the nerdie step son of DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING using "virtual" hardware resources that utilize "virtual" over subscription technology. The Cloud's "virtual" Ponzi resource revolution is a cloud of salesman who must sell more to actually fullfill what they sold and are implementing. I expect clouds to suffer from the same sort of economics that create buzz word bubbles. I expect we will see a long list of losers with one or three actual working Clouds winners, excluding all the artificial governmental Cloud winners.