> Algorithmia will host the algorithms on multiple cloud service providers, such as Amazon and Rackspace, which will speed things up for customers who use those

> Algorithmia will host the algorithms on multiple cloud service providers, such as Amazon and Rackspace, which will speed things up for customers who use those particular hosts I've long wondered if this business model of service components is how industry will evolve. It seems to make economic sense - but so did ordinary components, and they lost to (free, modifiable) open source libraries.