Cloud technologists are intrigued by the potential applications for commodity-style trading of compute capacity, and have begun discussing how such an exchange might work. Key ingredients: the right framework and a trusted market maker. Amazon's announcement last month of spot pricing for cloud computing services has prompted some cloud experts to begin discussing the potential for a public cloud
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