Larry Ellison - What The Hell Is Cloud Computing?

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison shares his views about "cloud computing", the latest fashion in the computer industry, in remarks to financial analysts on September 25, 2008.

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[Flight Condor]

Larry Ellison is not against cloud computing as such but rather is mocking the hype and hullabaloo around something which has existed under different names for well over 10 years.

After all, Oracle itself is into cloud computing or what it calls "software as a service."

Larry is also against techno-determinism, such as "PCs will kill mainframe computers" or "video kills the radio star."

Well it's been over 20 years since that song came out but radio is still alive and well.

[Karan Kamdar]

literally - these people who are writing this crap; are out there

[jjamendoza]

Cloud computing sounds like it could easily be a monopoly.

[darkspd31]

More buzzwords...

[ItsmeJamesAJ]

Cannot agree more.

[Jack Jenkins]

This is Youtube, a video streaming service, not a music streaming service.

[dinofx35]

Why is this a video? What a waste of bandwidth

[nipponese]

Cloud computing is the nice way we describe our return to the mainframe. 

[weissallessagtnix]

he is a very insightful guy, combined with a good portion of common sense and humour;-)

We do online banking since 10+x years now, we do Amazon shopping since years...so "cloud" is already a reality...simple hosting of services and software somewhere on a server...that simple...and nothing new...

[Chow Ming]

thank