Compare these two descriptions:
"Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers..." Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
"At Sun, we envision a world of many clouds, both public and private, that are open and compatible. We offer an extensive portfolio of products and services and are fostering open communities and partner ecosystems to make this vision a reality. It all starts with the delivery of the Sun Cloud, a public compute and storage infrastructure service, which is due out later this year." Sun Cloud Computing
I've rarely seen such a stark example of the difference between the clearly written text from Amazon which communicates the intent and the absolute nonsense from Sun. The most painful part is that the very sentence in which Sun uses the word "vision", is the very worst kind of non-speak. How many people will choose to use Sun's yet-to-be-released cloud because they "offer an extensive portfolio of products and services"? Perhaps people will be attracted because Sun are fostering "partner ecosystems"? No and No. However, people might well use Amazon because its "designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers".
Come on Sun, get your act together!
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