O'Reilly about keeping tempting profits in the Clouds with a translator afterword

Cloud computing is a reality. Everything moves into the clouds: in general, and in parts. At the same time, the main focus is that when at a certain stage of development of a certain “production” chain the tempting profit disappears in one place due to the fact that here “production” has become modular and serial, the opportunity to receive such profit from the corresponding product usually goes in an adjacent place ...

As I promised , I inform the citizens that in my series of notes “ O'Reilly, Microsoft and others about computing in the clouds ” two next ones appeared.

The first of these is the final part of the translation of O'Reilly's article “ Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing ”. The main idea of ​​this note is formulated above.
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In the second note , you will find more advanced ideas and interpretations of the translator, as well as some generalizing comments on the discussion in Habré of the first part of the translation of the O'Reilly article. The main thing in this note is the attempt to define the concept of “computing in the clouds” through a combination of five key features that characterize this technology: Virtuality, Separateness, Elasticity / Dynamism, Alieness, and Actual.

So:
The law of conservation of attractive profits in the clouds (translation of the 2nd part of the article)
Afterword of the translator with an attempt to define Clouds