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Same thing happened with VMs, "the cloud" and containers... Hapless CIOs and senior technical advisors around the world were convinced all their problems would

Same thing happened with VMs, "the cloud" and containers... Hapless CIOs and senior technical advisors around the world were convinced all their problems would be solved if they'd just sign a contract with <arbitrary vendor>. And their on the ground technical people would tell them "this ain't it" but would be shushed to tell a story to CEOs and shareholders.

George83728 3y ago
> Same thing happened with VMs, "the cloud" and containers... Hapless CIOs and senior technical advisors around the world were convinced all their problems would be solved if they'd just sign a contract with <arbitrary vendor>. Pinning this on the phrase "the cloud" is a mistake, it's part of a much broader trend of using specialist contractors for things instead of doing everything in house. If you could somehow magically go back in time and prevent "the cloud" or any other equivalent phrase from existing, the same trend of companies hiring other companies to do the work they don't care to specialize in would still exist. From the perspective of... an insurance company.. why shouldn't they contract another company to handle the servers? They already hire another company to hire janitorial work, building construction and maintenance, human resources, running their cafeteria, call centers, etc, etc... The computer stuff seems special to us because we're tech workers and this is a tech forum, but really it isn't special and it happens in virtually all aspects of doing business. The trend doesn't exist because of the buzzword, the buzzword exists because of the trend. If the buzzword didn't exist, a new one would be invented immediately, because language is a tool for conveying ideas and people make new tools on the fly whenever we find ourselves needing one. Ideas don't come from words; words come from ideas.

George83728 3y ago

> Same thing happened with VMs, "the cloud" and containers... Hapless CIOs and senior technical advisors around the world were convinced all their problems would be solved if they'd just sign a contract with <arbitrary vendor>. Pinning this on the phrase "the cloud" is a mistake, it's part of a much broader trend of using specialist contractors for things instead of doing everything in house. If you could somehow magically go back in time and prevent "the cloud" or any other equivalent phrase from existing, the same trend of companies hiring other companies to do the work they don't care to specialize in would still exist. From the perspective of... an insurance company.. why shouldn't they contract another company to handle the servers? They already hire another company to hire janitorial work, building construction and maintenance, human resources, running their cafeteria, call centers, etc, etc... The computer stuff seems special to us because we're tech workers and this is a tech forum, but really it isn't special and it happens in virtually all aspects of doing business. The trend doesn't exist because of the buzzword, the buzzword exists because of the trend. If the buzzword didn't exist, a new one would be invented immediately, because language is a tool for conveying ideas and people make new tools on the fly whenever we find ourselves needing one. Ideas don't come from words; words come from ideas.