no way i'm pushing the play button on that vid...
You have to. It's beyond hilarious.
Goodbye Web 2.0... Welcome Cloud Computing
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Re: Goodbye Web 2.0... Welcome Cloud Computing
#12Web 2.0 was a pretty annoying term, but it was at least loosely defined as something. Basically if you had some mix of HTML, Javascript and XMLHttpRequests doing stuff without complete page reloads, you were more or less there. Add some social context to it and you were hot. Cloud computing on the other has to be the fuzziest, least definable, over-hyped buzz-word I have heard in a long. When people started calling a…
Adding "cloud" or "grid" is really bs... when you think about it, companies like IBM and EDS have done this for years with their data centers. I don't think there is a health insurer in the U.S. who's purchased their own hardware in 20 years or more. It's all gussied up with a new, trendy name, and it's repackaged for the little guys, but it's about as new as pegging your jeans.