October 2008 Archives

Everything will eventually move into the cloud. We know that. We will develop, sell, choose and use everything online -- all our applications, PCs, digital-lifestyle services, media services and financial services. All online. That's right. We will... or is it that we already are? Is all of this really new? Or is Larry Ellison right?  Ellison insists that cloud computing is just another buzzword, with no real beef behind it.  Is he right? Are Microsoft, Google, Amazon, IBM and other giant corporations totally wrong to be investing billions in major new virtual cloud computing technologies, platforms and hosting infrastructures? Given the huge success of Salesforce.com -- soon to become the world's 30th billion-dollar software company -- we'd say the answer is no.