The Growth of the Web
The growth of the Internet is other key breakthrough in the area of treating computing as a service and utility as opposed to an infrastructure investment. Once again, there are several reasons for this. The Internet provides:
a large, cost-effective network.
a delivery mechanism to deliver information to people anywhere.
a delivery mechanism to deliver computing power to people anywhere.
The last two points are perhaps the deepest and most critical. The idea of the improved networking ability to provide a delivery mechanism allows a user to do more and more tasks that are not connected with the box sitting on his or her desktop. This in turn enables people to look at computing as a service (What can I do online to get a project ...
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