[gmcquillan]

This is an interesting concept. However, I think this article needs to define its target audience better. It seems to be speaking specifically to people doing web hosting (which you may or may not argue includes all of LAMP use-cases).

The idea that we can forgo operating systems because there are APIs to call doesn't make sense if your company heavily invests in infrastructure. Sometimes you need low-level access to hardware to fine-tune performance and scalability because your use-case is not the general use-case, even in a "cloud" environment.