Larry Ellison’s Brilliant Anti-Cloud Computing Rant
Earlier this week, we wrote that the term “cloud computing” now seems to apply to just about anything even loosely associated with the Internet, making it effectively meaningless. But our rant is nothing compared to what Oracle’s chief executive unleashed Thursday at his company’s analyst day.
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Here’s a slightly-edited excerpt:“The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can’t think of anything that isn’t cloud computing with all of these announcements.
The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion. Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It’s complete gibberish. It’s insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?
“We’ll make cloud computing announcements. I’m not going to fight this thing. But I don’t understand what we would do differently in the light of cloud computing other than change the wording of some of our ads. That’s my view.”
Didn’t John already say something along these lines a while ago?
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Well, M$ and Greedy Gate$ and Balmy Ballmer are really on top of Cloud Computing, because they don’t want to MISS THE BOAT, AS THEY CLEARLY DID ON THE INTERNET !!! That’s of course, when they aren’t plotting to TAKE OVER INTERNET ADVERTISING !!! They Micro$ofties haven’t seen a REVENUE STREAM THAT THEY DIDN’T WANT ***ALL OF*** !!!
“Didn’t John already say something along these lines a while ago?”…. yes
…wonder what tech will be strutting down the runway this Fall?
I thought cloud computing was how he would help the government run a national ID card/tracking system?
It used to be called “vaporware”
Larry is right.
Not at all. Two totally rants.
(1) John’s rant is about the unreliability and unaccountability of internet based application servers and the networks they live on.
(2) Larry’s rant is about the term “cloud computing” being meaningless, and also describing what he has been pushing all along, thin-client/server model.
Yet John and Larry do cloud computing everyday from web servers to web-based email to all sorts of things.
Cloud Computing is the same BS as Apple’s are NOT personal computers.
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Oracle 9i (i=interent)
Oracle 10g (g=grid)
I predict is team of marketing geniuses will brand the next version Oracle 12c (c=cloud) just to be fashionable.
So did anyone with a brain, but way to kiss the boss’ ass, UD.
Isn’t Larry the same guy who’d get wet for anything resembling ancient Japan?
The term Cloud Computing was invented as a way to get publicity & VC $ for start ups that are producing the same s/w we’ve been using for years.
The possible problem of Cloud Computing, is if it were to become too dominate. We could one day have another “billion dollar bailout” to keep it from going under, too. Because information will eventually become the most valuable commodity, in the future. Not real estate. And the Cloud could hold it hostage, until it’s CEOs get what they want. Platinum parachutes.
LarryE is probably patently upset and naysaying the cloud concept on the basis that you can’t install or worse, license Oracle on it.
Imagine the cost of Oracle 10 RAC across 100 processors!
#13 “LarryE is probably patently upset and naysaying the cloud concept on the basis that you can’t install or worse, license Oracle on it.”
You act like “cloud computing” is something different that the existing infrastructure & apps.
When you go on your browser and log onto your “cloud computing” app, what DB do you think is running on the “cloud server”?