Scaling the cloud, deflating the price of software
Two separate but complementary phenomena in combination seem to radically undermine traditional on-demand pricing models, giving rise to a new economic reality for cloud-based application software.I learnt of all this back in January, and I've since been biding my time until last week's launch of the Amazon-hosted product [disclosure: for which, as a paid engagement, I've written a white paper (PDF)]. I've been eager to write about it because the story highlights t