Timesharing is an idea from the 1960's that has been re-imagined by Amazon as they enforced service-oriented architecture on all their enterprise systems in a D

Timesharing is an idea from the 1960's that has been re-imagined by Amazon as they enforced service-oriented architecture on all their enterprise systems in a Draconian manner. On balance, Amazon is a saint. Despite its faults it has dramatically solved development, deployment and scalability problems faced by thousands and thousands of startups. How many startups could get going if they needed to spend $50 K on colocation, servers and bandwidth? That's what happened back in the Dot-Com boom.