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Cloud computing, cloud services, and the stuff in between
- buster 16y agoThere should be some cheatsheet i can hand out every manager and sales person that get all those buzz words totally wrong.. Especially "cloud" seems to be the word that is labeled on everything "non-cloud" just for marketing.
- swombat 16y agoIf only it was just managers. I remember attending a presentation by people who introduced themselves as cloud computing specialists, who made the grand declaration that "cloud computing is not a technology, it's a business model". That presentation was so full of hot air that the entire building seemed to float above London for a while.
- lucisferre 16y agoWow, not even a mention of Azure. Microsoft has a lot of work to do marketing their technologies. Ironically I'm reading this as I sit here in Redmond at an Azure seminar.
- yesno 16y agoI saw an Azure book in a local bookstore yesterday and the content seems to be directed at CIOs, IT Manager and the like. I don't think Microsoft's marketing effort is weak though. http://www.amazon.com/Applications-Microsoft-Platform-Patterns-Practices/dp/0735649677/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1291836209&sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.com/Applications-Microsoft-Platform-Patter... As a side note, I wish Google would've done the same thing too: write a book that explains a scenario in a typical business environment (billing, invoicing, time tracking/vacation/time-off tracking) of what AppEngine can do for business users. PS: I upvoted you though.