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In spring 2006 [[3tera]] announced its AppLogic service and later that summer Amazon launched [[Amazon EC2]] (Elastic Compute Cloud). These services allow the operation of general purpose computing applications. Both are based on [[Xen]] virtualization software and the most commonly used operating system on the virtual computers is Linux, though Windows and Solaris are supported. Common uses include web application, SaaS, image rendering and processing but also general-purpose business applications.
 
More recently, startups such as [http://www.slicify.com Slicify] have launched that crowd-source Utility computing, rather than providing it from a single provider or data centre.
 
== See also ==