Cloud Computing Unveiled
As you may probably know from my previous writing I unveil very little, especially when there is nothing to unveil. As with many other hypes, Cloud Computing can be everything to everybody as long as it promises sales opportunities and increasing profit margins. But still to this day there are people making serious attempts to navigate their way through the seemingly endless buzz clouds that evaporate from heated marketing departments.
Marketing Hype Beyond Stupidity
At least, that’s the way Richard Stallman sees it. In a recent interview the founder of the Free Software Foundation continues to say among other things:
Somebody is saying this is inevitable ? and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it’s very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.
It seems obvious that Stallman then goes on to warn of proprietary systems but it’s just as obvious that any proprietary vendor rebuffs his opinion as biased. Ha! With the sole exception of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison that is, who was cited as vigorously opposing the notion of Cloud Computing as such, but nevertheless insisting that he would accept it anyway as long as he can sell it. But even this rare bluntness has seen him falling from other people’s grace who dismiss it as Oracle’s failure to deliver the “real thing” and maintaining the cloud is the future of IT. The future of IT, my god, how many similar claims have we heard already! And aren’t we currently in the umpteenth of these futures that haven’t materialized?
Small wonder that with all the attention on another would-be next big thing, Microsoft has come up with their version of the cloud. And may I say so, we are all lucky this happens because it indicates that the heat might go down again pretty soon, at least for a short while. Maybe.