[lbo-talk] Cloud computing sucks

[Fernando Cassia]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:41 PM,  <lbo4 at beyondzero.net> wrote:
> Here's the perspective on "cloud" from someone (me) who works in IT
> at a manufacturing corporation:
>
> "Cloud" as marketing is not really aimed at you.  Well maybe Dropbox and
> Google Drive count as cloud, since glorified file sharing/sync'ing is
> branded as iCloud by Apple.

Do not forget the cloud is also aiming to the end-user, ie removing
apps from your PC and running them on the cloud, hence Google Docs or
MS Office 365 instead of MS Office or Apache OpenOffice. Or in the
most extreme scenario, "Chomebooks" with Chrome-OS.
http://t.co/XzzuVgju

In that area is where I think "the browser as the OS, your apps in the
cloud" is a bad bad bad idea.

If apps source code is not available, I want my apps on my local
machine, thanks very much. Yes, for some uses (mostly storage in the
cloud and easy accessibility from any machine) GDocs makes some sense.
But I´d prefer if the apps were either open source or if I had control
of which version I want to run, and not be force-fed "upgrades" I
don´t want.

The cloud concept "per se" is not bad, if you´ve got tons of upstream
bandwidth, and access to those apps source code. It´s just the model
of "closed source apps on the cloud" that I oppose with a passion.

FC
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