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Article: GIS and the cloud-computing conundrum.(BEYONDMAPPING)
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- GEO World
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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My first encounter with the concept of cloud computing was more than a dozen years ago when tackling a "Beyond Mapping" column on object-oriented computing. It dealt with the then-new buzzwords of "object-oriented" user interface (OOUI), programming system (OOPS) and database management (OODBM) that promised to revolutionize computer interactions and code sets (see "Author's Note," page 13).
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Since then, a string of new evolutionary terms--enterprise GIS, geography network, interoperability, distributed computing, Web-services, mobile GIS, grid computing and mashups--have captured geotechnology's imagination and attention.
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