Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Beware the microsoft cloud? Date: 23 May 2016 15:01:21 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net BEH6zz5SxswimPup6SMQAgFyyZedbrlvLJkhnhfmRZx9LOc/yJ Cancel-Lock: sha1:ipjqfjoKN3kA35QbDU2sbjSqSzw= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:163853 On 2016-05-23, jmfbahciv wrote: > Huge wrote: >> On 2016-05-22, jmfbahciv wrote: >>> Huge wrote: >>>> On 2016-05-21, Andrew Gabriel wrote: >>>>> In article , >>>>> "gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" writes: >>>>>> Has microsoft a reputation for doing something for nothing? >>>>>> >>>>>> How soon after they've everyone locked in to the cloud will >>>>>> they start charging heftily for it? >>>>> >>>>> Anyone using cloud needs to keep an eye on the current and future >>>>> exit costs from their supplier. >>>> >>>> Among about a zillion other things. >>> >>> How long will it be before the pendumlum swings from outsourcing >>> operations to doing one's own again. >> >> Well, I worked with computers (it had various names over the years) for >> 41 years, and I saw the "centralised"/"distributed" cycle go past about >> 3 times in that time. So I would say these things go in about 14 year >> cycles. We're likely about 5 years into "Ooh, shiney, cloud, want", so I >> suppose we have to put up with it for about another 10 years. > > So that makes it 3 brown books' worth of management planning. The cycles > can't really be tied to hardware nor software innovations. right? > So it must be the mid-management side of a business which "forgets"? Largely, yes. That and the techies who remember the shambles from last time have retired or died. -- Today is Pungenday, the 70th day of Discord in the YOLD 3182 I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.