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This is one angle of the history and I do think it is a useful and accurate representation for what it describes. My critique: This lacks context regarding the

This is one angle of the history and I do think it is a useful and accurate representation for what it describes. My critique: This lacks context regarding the still ongoing conflict between terminals and functional workstations. Time and again there is a back and forth in the computing realm. Case in point - I was selling SaaS deployments of what had been traditionally an On-Premises large cost platform. Who gets control is, to me, fundamentally a more significant angle on the history and future of computing. Again, will AI be on your phone or via network sends to a Host? Cost is a factor but I believe quite downstream from how these decisions are truly reached at the time.

api 3y ago
Local and personal vs remote and centralized tends to follow the same pattern as hardware and OSes that this article describes. The wheel turns when the precious iteration gets complex and expensive. Cloud offered an escape hatch from the nightmare of Microsoft centric enterprise IT and expensive complicated on premise business applications, not to mention the awful bureaucracy of IT departments themselves. Now I get the sense that cloud has become complicated, expensive, and encrusted with hordes of consultants and vendors layered on top of vendors. A back to local anti-cloud movement has been brewing for a while but hasn’t quite boiled over. You’ll probably soon start seeing more and more articles about how much money a company saved by leaving cloud. … and the wheel will turn once again.
- agumonkey 3y ago
  > Local and personal vs remote and centralized tends to follow the same pattern as hardware and OSes that this article describes. The wheel turns when the precious iteration gets complex and expensive. I've been looking for a name on such pattern, compression/diffusion based on cost, scale, market. It's so prevalent.

api 3y ago

Local and personal vs remote and centralized tends to follow the same pattern as hardware and OSes that this article describes. The wheel turns when the precious iteration gets complex and expensive. Cloud offered an escape hatch from the nightmare of Microsoft centric enterprise IT and expensive complicated on premise business applications, not to mention the awful bureaucracy of IT departments themselves. Now I get the sense that cloud has become complicated, expensive, and encrusted with hordes of consultants and vendors layered on top of vendors. A back to local anti-cloud movement has been brewing for a while but hasn’t quite boiled over. You’ll probably soon start seeing more and more articles about how much money a company saved by leaving cloud. … and the wheel will turn once again.

agumonkey 3y ago
> Local and personal vs remote and centralized tends to follow the same pattern as hardware and OSes that this article describes. The wheel turns when the precious iteration gets complex and expensive. I've been looking for a name on such pattern, compression/diffusion based on cost, scale, market. It's so prevalent.