Let's look at some August 24, 2006 posts from the peanut gallery...
Here's a skeptical comment[1] from Slashdot that was scored by that community as "5:Insightful":
>"Sun's grid effort has pretty much laid an egg. Perhaps I have the economics wrong, but isn't it more cost effective to build your own cluster out of discarded PCs?"
As counterpoint, here's a positive comment[2] to that same announcement that was more enthusiastic about the possibilities:
>Jeremy Wright • 10 years ago: Holy @#$@... We were about to move to Rackspace mainly for uptime support.
If you take Jeremy Wright's research into the new economics of cloud computing and multiply it by a hundred thousand like-minded people, you can trace a direct line from that kind of post to the Rackspace sale to private equity that made the HN front page yesterday[3]. The seeds of Rackspace's sale 10 years later were sowed from the very moment of Amazon's EC2 beta announcement.
