The power of Cloud Computing.

I was reading through this paper on Cloud Computing from Sun and then I came across this nice little paragraph cited below:
"The New York Times needed to convert 11 million articles and images in its archive (from 1851 to 1980) to PDF. Their Internal IT said it would take them seven weeks. In the meantime, one developer using 100 Amazon EC2 simple Web service interface instances running Hadoop (an open-source implementation similar to MapReduce) completed the job in 24 hours for less than $300.
— open.blogs.nytimes.com, “Self-service, Prorated Super Computing Fun!”
11/1/07, open.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/self-service-prorated-super-computing-fun/"

A touch of genius.