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Everything now is a cloud service??

I'm all for Cloud computing, and I love services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and S3. But I hate when people abuse the term.

I just came across this article, which starts with:

"Google’s Gmail outage on Monday was the latest stumble for nascent cloud computing services, which are becoming the lifeblood for small businesses and startups."

Gmail and a cloud service and 'nascent' too? Gmail is theoretically similar to Yahoo Mail which is like 'ancient' in internet time, but would you name that a 'cloud service'?

Everytime someone abuses this term on the internet, he definitely has no idea what he is talking about.