MULTICS? Boy, you go way back. But you really only need to go back 10 years or so when ASP (application service providers) were all the rage. ASP was ahead of its time though, and the intervening years since have led to the pervasive cloud.

This is good to see indeed. When we launched the web’s first Database-as-a-Service in 1999, our biggest hurdle was educating the user base. Nobody had experience with the cloud at that time. We were pretty much alone. Heck even the VCs we talked had this deer-in-the-headlights look on ‘em. SaaS just wasn’t sexy in the those days, but fast forward to today, and SaaS has finally come of age.