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One thing I find quite fascinating with the current industry obsession with “The Cloud” is that fact that it’s about infrastructure.
Infrastructure is boring.
A lot of the enthusiasm seems misplaced. A bit like seeing the Model-T for the first time and being excited by the Freeway. Many (if not most) of the “cloud” startups seemed focused on this infrastructure level … building systems like Amazon’s EC2 and the RightScale management suite. And of course, this is perhaps understandable – we have to have the infrastructure first and the payoff for the winners of this race will be big. Microsoft and Windows big.
But.
The real excitement is in what happens next …
Where does software go when computing is in the cloud?
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i totally love your tag cloud navigation. is this something you did yourself or did you find it on some opensource site?
I really wish I could get my paws on it because it’s just plain coooool.
greets.
and by the way: the software interface (and lets face it, that’s the only thing people notice, really) doesn’t change. if i drive a car on the freeway or a dirt road, im still sitting in the car with my hands on the steering wheel.
i would say the excitement around cloud computing is mostly around ROI. the software code becomes central, thus controllable, and everything else will probably stay pretty much the same.
now, where do I get a hold of this groovy spinning globe tag cloud nav??!?
…drool…
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