The titular question is ill-posed, but understandable. [Explain much more.]
DKF has made many pertinent observations based on his own cloud work:
Similarly, Steve Landers mentions that, "if we engineered an in-house solution to cope with the peaks we'd have a lot of kit sitting around unused most of the time."
DKF: Also note that there is no "compiler for the cloud"; it's about how to put pieces of applications on servers on the internet, with added virtualization and fine-grained accounting; you use standard compilers.
Fabricio Rocha - 12 Mar 2010 - I have been thinking about this subject these days. My knowledge about cloud computing is minimal, and so I think of it as something that can be done in multiple ways. What exactly is cloud computing? At first, it looks like having very lightweight applications in a desktop, netbook or mobile device (a basic OS and a browser) able to connect to application servers which do the heavy computing. So it looks like Tcl/Tk is very adequate to the task at a server side, thanks to its channels, http support, etc. At the client side I see a problem with the apparent abandon of the Tcl/Tk plugin. Or maybe we need something new, based in HTML5...
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