In the "cloud" space I think the difference was being able to sell it as a commodity and in as large or small chunks as the client wanted, not the concept itself.
Not sure what the equivalent in no/low-code would be.
Not sure what the equivalent in no/low-code would be.
It's one of those things where a difference in degree in implementation terms (leasing in smaller time increments) allowed a difference in kind in usage terms (on-demand server allocation over advance provisioning).