@wackoae Yes. You could do this with ANY UNIX, Windows, or LINUX server if you added the additional software, processes, and people to make it work. Just as an FYI, although I am sure you realize this, but "The Cloud" is run off of many "Any UNIX server"(s) to use your point, as well as many Windows and Linux Servers.
Let's not act like this is the first time that the industry has taken a bunch of technologies and terms that existed before and packaged it as an "Offering" of some sort. Need I mention "Web 2.0", or SOA?
It's just the nature of Sales and Marketing people to try to reposition the stuff that they sell and market in different ways to help to communicate what it is, or in many cases, just to fool the consumer and the press in believing that it's something new. Cloud computing has some new ways of automation and processes that were not sold the way that it is to day, but at its core it is just like the Mainframes of the 70's (Leasing time and processing power), just packaged and priced slightly differently.
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