In his ESRI-sponsored column, Jeff Thurston writes today (August 15, 2008) that "GIS was born to exist in the cloud."  Hmmm.  Are we at (or past) a GeoCloud tipping point? Is there a sudden rush on the cloud? How else can one explain this avalanche of cloud coming-outs? Oh, and did our July 31 post trigger the avalanche? Did Arc2Earth's announcement catch somebody unawares?