[icambron]

I suspect you're being downvoted for having a dismissive tone in the same breath as you admit to not understanding the problem space. My guess is that the marketing copy on the site isn't targeted towards you, so it shouldn't surprise you that you don't understand it, whereas their target customers know all sorts of things about, say, Pig. That's fine, but then your comment should read like, "Can someone explain to me what this is for?" Instead, your comment is dripping with condescending snark, lecturing someone or another about how this thing you don't understand probably isn't useful, and incredulous that you don't understand something on the internet.

Imagine opening an advanced textbook on a subject you don't understand, reading two paragraphs of it, and throwing up your hands in disgust because what does this even mean?

[contingencies]

Apologies, condescending snark was not the intent (I can't even see where you see that, actually!). In response to your more salient points, it could be argued that a web+EC2 layer on top of existing software is hardly an advanced textbook. Likewise, their announcement's stated intent is to gain customers, so feedback on what's unclear should be well within an acceptable scope of discussion. Finally, I doubt any of us are excluded from their intended market as software people move frequently between problem domains.

[erichmond]

For the record, this reply seems as snarky and dismissive as the first. Hopefully some constructive criticism.

[contingencies]

Thanks.