Cloud of Crap
The term “cloud computing” is the marketing buzzword of the moment that the industry is overusing and abusing a lot these days. I’m sure I will too if I haven’t already.
Larry Ellison, whom I am no fan of, called it when I said cloud computing is just what we’ve been doing for years. Perhaps that is a bit of an overstatement, but true for the most part.
This Tech Crunch piece by Steve Gillmor is a total piece of nonsensical crap on “the cloud” that tips the scales.
I think I’m pretty familiar with the general idea of the cloud and what is happening in the industry and I’m not sure what Steve is saying or even getting at. He seems rather aloof making insinuations that Microsoft has some amazing grand plan that is going to dominate the space or is on top of the whole cloud computing trend without explaining or even linking to the basis of his insinuations. If I have misunderstood his message it only proves how poorly written it is in communicating its message.
Microsoft has only proven that they are a lumbering dinosaur that doesn’t get where the Internet is going. It has steadfastly has clung to living on past glories with its fat client cash cows hoping to squeeze out one more quarter of ridiculous profits. With an OS no one wants (Vista) and the PC industry hurting to make a profit while every other Microsoft business unit hemorrhaging money except for the Windows OS and Office monopoly, the company is in poor position to do anything noteworthy, if at all, in could computing making Gillor’s article even more astounding and nonsensical.
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