John Gage, Sun Microsystems (NSDQ: JAVA)' co-founder, coined the phrase "the network is the computer" nearly 20 years ago. Arguably, that was the beginning of the cloud--but the wind changed direction
Making cloud computing easy to use is now the focus of two initiatives at Sun: Network.com, a collection of grid-enabled online applications available on a pay-per-use basis, and Project Caroline, a research effort to make cloud-based resources available to developers working on Web applications and services.
Network.com is evolving into a "virtual on-demand data center" that customers can use in real time as business demands change
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