What can I say about sourcing from the cloud that has not been said already? Cloud Computing appears to need no introduction. But appearances, as they say, can be deceptive. This over-the-top video of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison lamenting about the amount of “vapor ware” surrounding “cloud”, pretty much sums up the designer confusion that looms large over the enterprise IT horizon. (Caveat: unless you are overly charmed by Larry’s style, you’ll get the idea about halfway through)
I do not know why Mr. Ellison goes cloud-bashing but NO, cloud computing is not old wine in a new bottle just because centralized mainframe computing and then computers hooked to the internet have been around for ever (well almost). Yes, it borrows from all of those core technologies but the business model has not been in existience in this shape and form before as Mr. Ellison seems to suggest. In fact, it is amazing that supposedly the next big thing in commercial computing is at once the most talked about and least understood.
