Bill Gates sent a memo to Microsoft's staff on October 30, 2005 talking about how internet will unleash a "services wave" that "will be very disruptive". That was about the time when Google was constructing huge data centers - computing utilities that can be used to provide various services, like search, youtube, blogger, apps etc. Google is at the moment the biggest force in utility computing.
Other examples of this paradigm are Salesforce, S3 and EC2 by Amazon, and the various virtualization solutions.
The time of people who wrote code for the PC age is ending. The future of computing belongs to the new utilitarians.
The Big Switch: Our New Digital Destiny By Nicholas Carr
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