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> Cloud: A big networked oven that helps make your goods available all around the world at fast speeds. That's almost certainly the worst metaphor I've heard f
by jpatokal 9y ago
> Cloud: A big networked oven that helps make your goods available all around the world at fast speeds.
That's almost certainly the worst metaphor I've heard for explaining what the Cloud is. "Networked oven" indeed...
- Cyberdog 9y agoI guess it depends on how you would define "the cloud" without using a metaphor…
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- vertex-four 9y ago"Somebody else's computers."
- PMan74 9y agoI think he was running out of steam at this point, "ah whatever, a networked oven, that's good"
- HeavenFox 9y agoYou own a bakery but somehow never bought an oven. You just rent someone else’s when you have stuff to bake. You own a large bakery and bought a ton of ovens. Soon you realize, why do you spend time and energy creating the recipes, when you can just rent the ovens out.
- metaobject 9y agoYeah, but customers don't need the ovens in order to eat your bread. They do need the cloud in order to use your software, though.