I thank you for the compliment, but I am a lowly PM rather than an engineer, that doesn't find Cloud Databases [1] any more esoteric than the Cloud in general.

I thank you for the compliment, but I am a lowly PM rather than an engineer, that doesn't find Cloud Databases [1] any more esoteric than the Cloud in general. :) You'll probably find there are a lot of distributed database geeks at Google, me included, so we all get attracted to exciting posts on new distributed systems. [1]: http://db-engines.com/en/blog_post/68 http://db-engines.com/en/blog_post/68