To be fair, he did talk some sense about how everyone was claiming to have a
product that was cloud computing, but I still don't like Oracle. With there
current Java Patent war with Google and now this with OpenSolaris, it leaves
a very bad taste in my mouth.

Will this affect ZFS being used in FreeBSD?

On 15 August 2010 15:13, David Magda <dma...@ee.ryerson.ca> wrote:

> 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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