On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> wrote: > > On 01/13/2015 10:16 AM, john saylor wrote: >> bonjour >> >> On 1/13/15 8:56 , Rich Braun wrote: >>> GnuCash, I'm afraid, is even farther behind on the UI usability front. >> works for me, but one size does not fit all. >> >>> It looks like the end of the road for desktop finance; the future is cloud >>> services. But really, I'm a cloud-security developer: who can possibly >>> trust the cloud with personal-finance data? >> the people who trust the cloud are the ones who don't really understand >> it ... once it's on those "cloud servers", your control is gone. and all >> it takes is one careless temp, or disgruntled dba. >> > Mike Rhodin, IBM Senior VP and general manager of the Watson Group one > stated that "the cloud" is simply the old mainframe way of doing things, > but they had to use different terminology. But conceptually, you are > running on some company's computers located somewhere.
This isn't just mainframe computing, it is akin to commercial time sharing/service bureau computing. Admittedly for many people they were one & the same, since most businesses couldn't afford to own their own mainframe; but I would still consider them different computing styles. Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss