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Is SaaS a version of cloud?
It certainly can be, SalesForce .com is one that comes to mind although they are hosting
on a private probably proprietary cloud.

Integrating some software with SalesForce a while back was my first taste of how CC
forced you to think differently about data storage as there is no central SQL server to use.

I had to describe the data structures up front and then throw them at the cloud.

Access to the data was a little slower than traditional methods and a bit
clunky when describing what data I wanted to access "End Points".
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