"We also now have the example of for-profit colleges that have shown that it's perfectly possible to go to scale online," said Kevin Carey, policy director of Education Sector, an independent policy institute.
"Rocket's platform allows us to build and scale online businesses in fast growing markets all around the world.
Their open platform strategy will lead to an entirely new ecosystem of software companies that are focused on helping customers scale online".
If you're a web developer you're undoubtedly familiar with Amazon Web Services, the suite of products that allows developers to build and scale online services with a minimal amount of infrastructure costs.
Those familiar with AWS (which you may have heard recently suffered from some downtime) might know that Amazon's cloud platform allows developers to build and scale online services without the high costs typically associated with infrastructure management.
She said Google is scaling its online resources as the developer community scales, as well.
Since then, building niche Web sites and small-scale online stores has become cheap and easy.
There's no grand-scale online motoring community where people can meet and share video, comments, information and opinion.
As always with large-scale online games, only time will tell, but for now Mists of Pandaria is superb.
