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| From | Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: Beware the microsoft cloud? |
| Date | 2016-05-23 15:01 +0000 |
| Organization | Piglet's Pickles & Preserves |
| Message-ID | <dqgka0FileU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | (16 earlier) <nhpkfu$v2a$1@dont-email.me> <dqb5e0Fs9juU1@mid.individual.net> <PM0005336E1EC56868@aca446d8.ipt.aol.com> <dqe5s9Fg5g2U1@mid.individual.net> <PM0005338109FE2928@aca46cd0.ipt.aol.com> |
On 2016-05-23, jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> wrote:
> Huge wrote:
>> On 2016-05-22, jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> wrote:
>>> Huge wrote:
>>>> On 2016-05-21, Andrew Gabriel <andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>> In article <nh4v4v$id$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>>> "gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> 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.
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Re: Beware the microsoft cloud? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-05-24 12:42 -0400
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Re: Beware the microsoft cloud? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-05-22 16:42 +0000
Re: Beware the microsoft cloud? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-23 11:49 +0000
Re: Beware the microsoft cloud? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-05-23 15:01 +0000
Re: Beware the microsoft cloud? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-24 12:11 +0000
Re: Beware the microsoft cloud? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-05-24 13:33 +0100
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Re: Beware the microsoft cloud? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-25 13:11 +0000
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Re: Beware the microsoft cloud? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-06-02 12:09 +0000
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