fink: typical cloudy virtualizaton things.
they were working on a front-end that would let you "plug in" clouds like back-end computing resources for whatever.  The front-end would have the brains to provision and deprovision as necessary.
Their stuff was geared toward compute-intense stuff.  Need 350 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo's worth of compute for 17 minutes? Upload the work, it does the provisioning.
pilgrimd: sounds cool
pilgrimd: ahhh that sounds like all those libcloud type things
Hey, up_the_irons
G: Yep, and their VC funding disappeared while they were gearing up, so they sold the idea off to some friends and liquidated the office.
Being geeks, most of them took hardware instead of cash. :)
i think i would rather have the gear than the idea. heh
Well, yeah, because you can't force everyone to forget, so they just sold off the IP.
pilgrimd: actually, on second thoughts it sounds more like compute cluster/grid than cloud