Joe Dirt says:

Larry hates everything though…except himself.

However, he does raise good points.

ECA says:

WHO remembers NOT long ago, the IDEA/thought..
That you dont OWN a computer, you RENT it??
Take a net book, and THINK.. Every thing you do is ON THE INTERNET.
YOU PAY A FEE for it.
YOU ARE RENTING..

1. DATA on the net is like ASKING someone to look at it.
2. do you want to DEPEND on some OTHER GROUP to control and be RESPONSIBLE(LOL) for your data? look up DDOS.
3. you are asking SOMEONE ELSE, to maintain something. IF its LOST (read the EULA) they are not responsible. IF you LOST it, you LEARN SOMETHING. BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP. The more you pay, the BETTER they MIGHT protect your data..
4. $20 per month is $240 per year, and a 1 TB HD is <$100… GET 2.

Floyd says:

ECA is exactly RIGHT (had to DO that). Seriously though, if a business has data that is critical to the business, the owner would be out of his/her/their minds to put it in a cloud external to the business’s IT system.

Now a “cloud” within a company’s firewall might be reasonably secure. but you still need to BACKUP.

Hugh Ripper says:

He might be an arrogant twit but he’s absolutely right.

t0llyb0ng says:

The cloud is just fine until it goes down for an hour & then everybody freaks out. That is because sync doesn’t work. One should be able to keep doing what one was doing for that hour or three that the Web is down, then when it comes back online, hit the netsync button & everything gets updated—”just like it never even happened.”

There are folks who knew how to make netsync work 10, 12 years ago. The reason YOU don’t know about it is because they’ve been keeping it a “trade secret” & making money off it. They don’t care if you never get it.

jpfitz says:

The other day after a martini my wife said to me “you are my god”. I replied “why cause I can find answers for you on the internet?” So if the cloud has all the answers, and there is a man in the cloud the internet is god.

Father says:

Tdmoose, how much do you pay per month for Internet access?

Exactly.

Ralph, the Bus Driver says:

Shortly after I got my first PC in ’93 all I heard was how programs were going to passe. Everything would be done over the internet, and yes that was dial-up. The term was “toasters” for computers with minimal equipment on them.

It didn’t work then and I see no reason for it to work now.

QUESTION: Was the audience laughing with him or at him?

tdmoose says:

Sorry folks, but I’ve lost more data and suffered more downtime from our internal IT resources than our cloud resources.

Don’t tell me it won’t ever work, because it does work for me and has for over 8 years.

sargasso says:

Larry, is a truly great American business man, with keen fighting instincts, who prefers being underestimated. Oracle sells the databases, that serve the back-end of the cloud. Which ever side of the debate wins, Oracle makes money out of it. While the debate rages, it removes the focus from the competitors.