[Info-vax] Accuweather new contract

[David Froble]

Kerry Main wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at info-vax.com] On Behalf Of
>> David Froble
>> Sent: 24-Mar-15 9:36 PM
>> To: info-vax at info-vax.com
>> Subject: Re: [New Info-vax] Accuweather new contract
>>
>> mcleanjoh at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> Lots of mention of the "cloud". Almost no mention of VMS for 20
>>> years.  Which do you think will be popular and which be very rare?
>> The freeking cloud is just timesharing all over again, with much better
>> communications.
>>
>> Just wondering when some marketing type will be bringing back the hula
>> hoop ???
> 
> Opportunity knocks .. how about a new invention called a "cloud" ring?
> 
> :-)

No, really, I'm serious about this.

Back in the day, the IT department provided services for the users. 
Sometimes those services were perceived to be inadequate, or slow to 
materialize, and such, and is one reason the PCs spread so quickly. 
Users could afford them, and didn't have to wait for whatever IT would 
dole out to them.

So, what is a private cloud?  It's the centralization of IT, just like 
back in the day.

The company I worked for started out selling timesharing services on a 
RSTS system, with 110 BAUD accoustical modems.  Other than much better 
communications today, what's so different about a public cloud?

It used to be the cost of HW that kept things centralized.  Today it's 
maybe the cost of people, power, office space, whatever.

Private centralization of services I have no problem with.  As for the 
public services, maybe useful for some things, but to me it's like 
putting all your eggs in somebody else's basket.  Life on the edge ..