On Aug 14, 2010, at 19:39, Kevin Walker wrote:
I once watched a video interview with Larry from Oracle, this ass
rambled on
about how he hates cloud computing and that everyone was getting
into cloud
computing and in his opinion no one understood cloud computing,
apart from
him... :-|
If this is the video you're talking about, I think you misinterpreted
what he meant:
Cloud computing is not only the future of computing, but it is the
present, and the entire past of computing is all cloud. [...] All it
is is a computer connected to a network. What do you think Google
runs on? Do you think they run on water vapour? It's databases, and
operating systems, and memory, and microprocessors, and the
Internet. And all of a sudden it's none of that, it's "the cloud".
[...] All "the cloud" is, is computers on a network, in terms of
technology. In terms of business model, you can say it's rental. All
SalesForce.com was, before they were cloud computing, was software-
as-a-service, and then they became cloud computing. [...] Our
industry is so bizarre: they change a term and think they invented
technology.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmrxN3GWHpM#t=45m
I don't see any inaccurate in what said.
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