I just sent out a newsletter coving the jargon du jour – Cloud Computing. I missed this classic for inclusion in the mailout. It is Larry Ellison on the subject. Quote
” The interesting thing about cloud computing – it is either going to be or already is the most important computing architecture in the world because we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we currently do. So it has already achieved dominance in the industry – I can’t think of anything that isn’t cloud computing with all of these announcements.
The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion. Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It’s complete gibberish. It’s insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?”
Go Larry!
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Bob, great blog!
What’s interesting about this is Larry was a huge supporter of thin client computing….but during the time when it threatened Microsoft, however now it may affect his company and profits, he is suddenly not quite so positive.
Here’s a paragraph extracted from http://dotnet.sys-con.com/node/694803 :
“Larry’s rant is an extraordinary example of whistling past the graveyard. Oracle’s huge transformation over the last 10 years has been from an infrastructure company (databases & middleware) to an applications company (ERP, CRM, SFA ect). Now, just as this transformation is completed, along comes an infrastructure that will obsolete all the applications Oracle just got done rolling up.”
Larry isn’t stupid, he knows the cloud shift is taking place and he doesn’t like it one bit!
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Yes, I saw that post as well. But Larry doesn’t say he is against Cloud Computing (or SaaS or PaaS or On Demand) as such. He is just frustrated the way new jargon terms get introduced and, once the tech industry thinks they are hot, get applied to everything.
I agree with him 100% on this. Go look in the financial tech industry (check out http://www.bobsguide.com) and you will see waves of products being reclassified every couple of years as new hot jargon gets invented. Look under the bonnet of the latest ‘low latency’ product (the current buzz) and you will find the same old tired COBOL systems they have been peddling for years.
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