[LINK] 'Cloud Computing doesn't fly'

Fernando Cassia fcassia at gmail.com
Tue Sep 28 17:21:10 AEST 2010


On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Marghanita da Cruz <marghanita at ramin.com.au
> wrote:

> Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> >   .... but what's all this got to do with "cloud computing"?
> >
> > Virgin outsourced its systems to Navitaire and their web site
> > <http://www.navitaire.com/> doesn't mention cloud computing.
> >
> > Looks like another journalist's vivid imagination.
> >
>
> No Bernard,
>
> It isn't just the Journalist. There seems to be a
> repositioning of the meaning of the cloud. I stopped in my
> tracks recently, when someone referred to the National Golf
> Handicap computer system as the Cloud.


Mr. Roy Schestowitz from TechRights.org (formerly BoycottNovell), has coined
a term I think is extraordinary: "Fog Computing". :))

I suggest anyone into Twitter follow his daily updates...

http://twitter.com/schestowitz
FC



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