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Re: Cloud? IoT? How to start

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Subject Re: Cloud? IoT? How to start
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On 2017-03-25, rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote:

> I know someone who is marketing a product where much of the
> processing is done in the "cloud".  He feels that somehow this will
> make the software immune from ever needing to be ported as OS
> revisions change and hardware is upgraded.

Right, and at home he's got a paddock full of unicorns that fart
rainbows.

> Really?  Is that really possible?

As long as the hosting company never changes anything (or goes out of
business), hardware never fails, software never needs security
updates, protoocols never change, requirements never change, and so
on.

IOW, no.

> At some point won't the environment hosting software require
> maintenance no matter what your host is (assuming they upgrade on a
> regular basis)?

Yes.

You're just pushing some of the maintenance work off on sombebody else
and paying them to do it.  It's still fallible appplications running
on fallible OSes on fallible hardware that's all built and maintained
by fallible people.  [The _hope_ is that "those people" are better at
it than "these people".  In some cases that may be true.  I'm not
convinced it's usually possible to predict which cases those are.]


But now you've made yourself even more dependent on network
connections -- which are (surprise!) fallible.

--
Grant

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Cloud? IoT? How to start pozz <pozzugno@gmail.com> - 2017-03-23 12:04 +0100
  Re: Cloud? IoT? How to start Randy Day <randy.day@sasktel.netx> - 2017-03-23 07:41 -0600
  Re: Cloud? IoT? How to start Paul <paul@pcserviceselectronics.co.uk> - 2017-03-24 12:04 +0000
    Re: Cloud? IoT? How to start rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-25 15:35 -0400
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      Re: Cloud? IoT? How to start Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2017-03-25 15:23 -0500
      Re: Cloud? IoT? How to start Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-03-25 20:28 +0000
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