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Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future

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Actually, we're pretty used to having everything "in the cloud"
already.  Y'all remeber those diagrams of 25 years ago explaining the
internet: Your desktop box -> some local host -> puffy little,
impenetrable cloud -> some remote host.  In the cloud means that your
critical services or data are in that little impenetrable cloud, out
of reach, out of sight and mind.

But for most people, their cell phone service, banking services, data
services are all like that.  See all the stories of hanging on the
phone for hours waiting for, then talking to, cookie-cutter droids,
being passed from one to another, being handled in the end however the
computer determines regardless of what those droids may have said.
That's the cloud. That's the UI for The Cloud.  Do you want your life
there? Or your little business?

I used to be able to drive to my ISP's NOC in 10 minutes and talk to
the sys admin. After the dad demise of the founder and a merger, I now
have to drive an hour an a half but I can *still* walk into the place
where my email and other net stuff is being handled on short notice
and talk to the resident demigod.

I get horripiliations at the thought of having to deal with one of the
megacorp ISPs should my ISP run aground or be scuttled by the big
competitors. 


-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-03 20:45 +0000
  Re:Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-05 10:29 +0000
    Re: Re:Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-04-05 17:04 +0000
    Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future David Harmon <source@netcom.com> - 2014-04-05 11:35 -0700
    Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-04-05 19:47 +0100
      Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2014-04-06 01:31 -0300
        Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-06 18:49 +0000
          Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@hushmail.com> - 2014-04-06 14:14 -0500
            Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future "G. Paul Ziemba" <paul+usenet@w6yx.stanford.edu> - 2014-04-07 01:18 +0000
            Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-04-07 09:06 +0000
          Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-04-06 22:35 +0000
            Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-04-07 00:18 +0100
      Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> - 2014-04-06 22:04 +0200
        Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-04-06 22:18 +0100
  Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2014-04-07 23:25 +0100
    Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-04-08 10:40 +0100
      Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-04-08 17:48 +0000
        Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-04-08 19:11 +0100
          Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-04-08 19:34 +0000
          Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-04-09 17:56 +0000

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