Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Bashes 'Cloud Computing' Hype

[KNP192]

Cloud computing is just a fancy buzzword for what we've had for years. Nothing special-

[msbrando]

Well, i can't paste the link for the interview with Charlie Rose, but you google it.

[msbrando]

Please, Larry Ellison started "cloud computing" in the end of the 90s. I just work in a company that the entire "ERP" was online, in the Oracle data center.

Just check this video with Charlie Rose in 1998 or around:

This is just BS about "cloud computing" like if they have invented something super new.

[srvbluesbb]

the man drinks VOSS....classy

[Hibryd7]

It's like facebook...I've never understood how facebook is anything different than a message board mixed in with chat and some rss feeds and other technologies that're as old as the internet.

The current direction of things is UI. The internet and networks have been pretty much as they are for over a decade but people need things spoon fed to them in pretty fonts and streamlined interfaces. This exposes the toxicity of a capitalist system...it demands "progress" even when things already work.

[bobbycv64]

@Hibryd7 don't you understand, IT'S CLOUD COMPUTING.

IT'S IN THE CLOUD!!!

LOL - Seriously, I would like to know ONE TECHNOLOGY THAT M$ INVENTED??? Please tell me, what ONE TECHNOLOGY gates THAT THIEF has INNOVATED???

SORRY, give me the water bottle to shut me up, CLOUD LOL

[TeutonTwin]

lol, right up there with "Developers! Developers! Developers!"

hehe... one day he'll "get it"...

[rajatraina1979]

SAAS and Cloud computing is all the same. He's so right about it! All of it runs on tons of Databases, Hardware and Applications. It's no innovation in technology. It's just a Business Model utilising existing technology. Google has been running on the cloud for ages now...It's time we came up with something that truely changed the playing field. Is cloud computing the Future? Well, It's always been there and sure some medium-small businesses will move toward it but Not the large Enterprises.

[G58]

He's doing a drunken style standup routine [sitting down] because despite predicting cloud computing 15 years ago, he failed to capitalise on it - so he feels he has to mock it now. And that's the sad truth here. This may be entertaining on some level, but so is watching the drunk on the street trying to sing like Elvis - to a lamp post.

[bawagrafix]

cloud computing is nothing but an old wine in a new bottle

[kurap1kaa]

The concept of the cloud is not how the Hardware is configured its more the way how Software is executed, how work and data is distributed and how the hardware is rented by customers. E.g. In Azure Software can be simply cut down to worker and display parts and the cloud distributed those to fitting hardware while the customer just has to pay for the real amount of activity the software needs instead of renting one or more full servers.

[farche2]

fuchsia / puce, love it

[1888junkteam]

excellent work!

[TheNilesLeshProject]

This is brilliant ! its not the CPU, the memory and a world wide connect network - its the cloud

Kinda reminds me of when "Push" technology was the hype

good spin is hard work, they don't hand out IPOs like they used to

[humbleamericangenius]

Cloud computing *is* innovation. Cloud computing *is* also what developers have been doing for years, though it was not implemented as it is now or called 'cloud computing'. By removing the need for expensive co-locations with racks of purchased hardware and teams of operations engineers, developers can innovate quickly and easily, hands untied. But what is being created is using the same clustered-tier client-server architectures as ten years ago, only now deployment can happen in a heartbeat.

[angelwhite]

I think it's more as he said at the end, cloud is a business model. We don't buy our own hardware any more, we don't manage our own servers, we don't host our own files. We rent a VPS from some hosting company, rent the ram and bandwidth, we rent storage from Amazon S3. We write our documents in our browser now, stored and shared through google. It represents a different approach, a different perspective. Yes, there is ultimately hardware, but it is being used very very differently by end users.

[NermalsChannel]

Magic man dunnit.

[Zoiros85]

hehe... Ill watch the whole thing...

[Mastikator]

Dude need to calm down o.0

[DeletedDelusion]

No, he is right, just using a new word has nothing to do innovation at all, and it's so annoying.

[Mastikator]

Didn't say he was wrong.

[eszettfromhell]

The comparison with Chanel is absolutely superb. So glad Ellison is willing to point out that the emperor may well be skyclad, but that's still just a fancy way of saying naked.

[phfrankh]

...excuss me, yer jammin me frequencies! The internet was alledgedly, devoloped as a millitary application, in Switszerland. Somebody, had to seperate the twits from the tweets! (-;)

[metainfinity]

It's in the cloud, dude.