http://www.johnmwillis.com/ibm/businessweek-cloud-smackdown/ JOHNMWILLIS BLOG Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:53:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.johnmwillis.com/ibm/businessweek-cloud-smackdown/comment-page-1/#comment-4297 James Urquhart Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:17:32 +0000 http://www.johnmwillis.com/aws/businessweek-cloud-smackdown/#comment-4297 Nice catch, John! Some more: What the hell does "The idea is that tech capabilities should hover over everything..." mean? Seriously, hover over what?No mention of the cost of storage or bandwidth? Or did he lamely try to wrap those costs in with the CPU cost to get the $0.20?While Sun and HP, at least, have had both grid and short-term lease services available, neither of those count as a "cloud" in the sense of hiding infrastructure; in each case the customer has to configure some element, including blasting out server images in many cases. Still, I think he was trying to communicate the disruptive nature of these offerings, but wasn't nearly as articulate as the general blogosphere. Nice catch, John! Some more:
What the hell does “The idea is that tech capabilities should hover over everything…” mean? Seriously, hover over what?No mention of the cost of storage or bandwidth? Or did he lamely try to wrap those costs in with the CPU cost to get the $0.20?While Sun and HP, at least, have had both grid and short-term lease services available, neither of those count as a “cloud” in the sense of hiding infrastructure; in each case the customer has to configure some element, including blasting out server images in many cases.
Still, I think he was trying to communicate the disruptive nature of these offerings, but wasn’t nearly as articulate as the general blogosphere.

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