[LINK] Enterprise ICT in 2015

Tom Worthington tom.worthington at tomw.net.au
Wed Dec 24 09:23:56 AEDT 2014


On 23/12/14 00:14, Stephen Loosley wrote:
> Three Ways Enterprise Software is Changing ... By Joab Jackson (IDG News Service) on 20 December, 2014
> http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/562900/three-ways-enterprise-software-changing/?fp=2&fpid=1
>
> ... The idea of cloud computing has been around for a while ...

Yes, the idea of sharing a remote central computer provided be a 
separate organization is not a new idea, coming from the 1960s: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_computing#History

The business and academic press have discussed for fifty years the 
business and technical issues with sharing a computer. Much of that is 
applicable to cloud computing.

The idea of IT being more than just support for the business and instead 
a determinate of what it does is also not new. An example is  in the 
1993 movie "Sleepless in Seattle", which depicts someone working from 
from home as a travel agent, using a computer terminal.


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