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To counter some of the responses on this thread, it's worth noting that not everyone believed in anything but dumb terminals, object-oriented development, relational databases.... etc. in times past, either. I'm not saying it's a certainty that "the cloud" will be like those and become a part of everyday life, but I wouldn't just write it off either. Ultimately, datacenters, servers, sustained engineering, support, etc. are all cost centers (although they do benefit the bottom line by enabling the workforce). "The cloud" is likely to become more prevalent as the consumerization of IT continues, and public organizations continue to work to find ways to cut costs. It's still early in the game, but I for one believe in the cloud becoming a fairly mainstream thing to find businesses trusting at least some of their critical business processes to. Given it can have fairly large cost savings in manhours and materials, it behooves one to at least give it a good, long thought. The almighty dollar / pound / euro / <insert currency here> is what I see as the driver of this technology.