Web services and utility computing

coming back to the blog after a few days break..

> A few months ago I was working on grid computing technologies. I was intrigued by “utility computing” – A meter based service where you pay-as-you-go for the amount of computing power required for your business. Now there is an interesting article in economist on utility computing

> The above economist article also talks about “web services” which are gaining popularity these days. I started exploring more and found a good primer to web services. (at least I figured out web services is not the services offered over web”.. that is one confusion less..

> well are there any practical uses of web services.? One of the prominent users is apparently ASPs. Sharing applications becomes easier irrespective of language, platforms, Networks etc.. A practical example is CRM on demand using webserivces