Cloud Computing is possible through ubuntu?

[ms]

Very Thanks for the response.
I thoguht the "platform as a service" as cloud computing. 
Give some ideas please.

On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 20:20 +1100, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 13:32 +0530, ms wrote:
> > I have attended number of workshops related to cloud computing. But
> > cannot see even a single implementation. Can anybody tell how can I
> > implement it using ubuntu? I want to do a project in it.
> 
> What do you mean by cloud computing? People refer to different things as
> cloud computing. Online storage space, like Dropbox or Ubuntu One, is
> cloud computing. Then there is Infrastructure-as-a-Service like Amazon
> AWS, which for most people is "the cloud computing platform". Eucalyptus
> is an open source implementation of AWS API. There is also
> Platform-as-a-Service like Google Apps which is called cloud computing.
> Then there is the old-fashioned Software-as-a-Service, like Salseforce
> CRM, which is thought of as Cloud Computing. 
> 
> So, cloud computing is different things to different people. You should
> first decide what you want to achieve before attempting to do it via
> Ubuntu. Ubuntu is nice and all, but at the end of the day, it's just an
> OS which might or might not be the best tool for the job you want to do,
> depending on what it is that you want to do.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> -- 
> Aryan Ameri
> 
>