Re: [ontolog-forum] Amazon vs. IBM: Big Blue meets match in battle for t

[Simon Spero <sesuncedu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:00 PM, John F Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 Amazon is the default provider for cloud computing (no-one ever got fired for choosing AWS). They have a major data-center conveniently located in Ashburn, which is close to Reston and the Ninja Librarians.  They are building more SCIF space at that site. 

Search is a very minor part of the AWS ecosystem.  The main services are the EC2 compute nodes, and the S3 storage service.  They also have a content distribution network, but they are not dominant in the marketplace.  

If you want to serve linked data from the cloud, you can spin up pre-build virtuoso machines (I expect Kingsley Idehen will have already mentioned this). 

All nodes have  access to freebase and dbpedia data sets. Many pre-build linux images have swi-prolog installed. 

In 2006 Paul McCartney turned 64, which is 2^6.   Are we to believe that this is mere coincidence?  

Yours, 

The Walrus.  

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