[kunle]

Just checked out www.multyvac.com, which has webvan, boo.com, etoys and lehman brothers listed as customers. What's the joke? Not sure I get it.

[cschmidt]

I guess just that they are there to pick up the pieces from PiCloud, like someone should have done for those other failures.

[vecter]

It's a reference to "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov: http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm

[vjoel]

Probably a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivac.