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No you are not alone in this Label oriented world.....
I am one that is of your ilk...... I dont like to spend (waste) money unecessarily.... especially if you have shareholders to look after...
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John C wrote: those of us who have to work for a living and can't go flitting off to PDC or other insanely wasteful marketing oriented brainwashing sessions / shmoozefests of their ilk
It's a whole different story when your company foots the bill.
John C wrote: It means *nothing* to me right now at all and to many others I'm sure.
As usual, the MS marketing around Azure seems to indicate that they invented "the cloud" and Azure is a revolutionary service. This is far from the truth. From what I can tell, "the cloud" is just another name for consolidated infrastructure. Basically, one company manages a whole bunch of servers, so that small-to-medium sized businesses don't have to. You pay that company for the service of keeping those servers alive and kicking. I think this can be a very good thing for small companies that don't have enough money/employees to buy and maintain the expensive IT infrastructure required for their Web sites to go live.
There are, and have been, companies that provide exactly this service for years. There's nothing new under the sun.
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Josh Smith wrote: It's a whole different story when your company foots the bill.
Well that would still be me and in any case the more pdc's your company pays for, the more programmers they will have to get rid of when the economy turns south.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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John C wrote: Azure is in pre-beta apparently
But it's not the first player in the game. You can sign up for Amazon's right now (second gen in fact; EC2) and people have been using it for quite some time. There's nothing future about it. It's just MS is behind the times as usual.
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I would suggest if any of you have any reservations or want further info on 'Clouds' I suggest a look at this link:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/25/cloud_dziuba
Cloud computing: A catchphrase in puberty
How Google and Amazon will take your money and step on your dreams.
I was intitially apprehensive on the safety of this 'Cloud' structure,
after reading some of the Blogs on this site .. I am now suicidle..
Whether these are Fact or fiction...is not the case.....
'Clouds' are Totally Unsafe in all aspects....
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DRew Hinge wrote: Whether these are Fact or fiction...is not the case.....
Well, it is sorta important to make that distinction.
The Register is the supermarket tabloid of computer journalism. I don't think they've claimed yet that Gates's parents are aliens, but it can't be far off.
Privacy, security, performance, and data safety are all serious and legitimate concerns that Microsoft must carefully address. But it is way too early to get hysterical about it.
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...but, no dice rain. Clouds are notoriously unpredictable...
---- You're right.
These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets .
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Wow, so many people not targeting the cloud?
That really rains on my parade.
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