If you are frequently reading tech, and more specifically software news, you would have noticed that this year the terms "Cloud", "Cloud Computing" are the most written ones all around the media. People seem to be going crazy about it. Every company owner wants to say that their company is on the cloud.
The truth is, nothing has really changed this year in terms of development or technology, there is more fashion in the term than novelty.
But there is so much hype that the sole term is getting companies funded. Only somebody well settled in the software industry would dare to say the truth, and that person is Oracle's CEO Larry Ellison.
Larry Ellison at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 said:
The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. 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?
We'll make cloud computing announcements. I'm not going to fight this thing. But I don't understand what we would do differently in the light of cloud.
I am a senior programmer born in Argentina. I work full time as a programmer and part time as a freelance web developer.
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