On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 9:13 AM, 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.
Indeed; even waaay before the SaaSillyness, they were know as service bureaus: http://drcoddwasright.blogspot.com/2009/07/cloud-lucy-in-sky-with-razorblades.html _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
