[LINK] 'Cloud Computing doesn't fly'

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

  On 28/09/2010 9:06 AM, Marghanita da Cruz 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.
>
> Marghanita
Yes, It seems to be the IT industry's usual practice. A new concept 
comes along and, hey presto, all the vendors have had it for years.

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Regards
brd

Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Canberra Australia
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