Why Larry Ellison hates Cloud computing

Cloud is a word and you can make fun of any word. But behind the word is a concept that depends on convention (agreement). Larry appears to attempt to undermine that convention, but it's very likely too late for that. So far, the mind game. What cloud really is, is changing the IT business model from hardware and software oriented to services oriented. Meaning the mere processor, database, OS and software package sellers are going to loose market power to the service sellers. See why he's upset?

eBusiness, SOA, and now Cloud are marketing terms designed to carry a message around a concept. We were doing each one in some fashion years before it became a buzzword. As technology becomes more pervasive in businesses (Oracle customers) there are late adopters who need more education to understand. These terms help. Why do some people worry about it?  side note....I would be embarrassed to have this guy as my leader...not funny and kinda sad...

Larry sounds like he needs to get laid by one of his 19 yr old fluezy followers. Take it easy Larry - yeah I don't think anyone is arguing hardware is not needed - it is just now the market is looking to remove that burden from the consumer.

Thats funnyobviously a sour subject for him/Oracle but still a funny bite!

Like a cloud obscures the sun, the term obscures the truth of what its being used to sell. Cloud computing is moving the harddrive from your house, to a corporately controlled location. Its a marketing phrase to coined to help large conglomerations to centralize and control personal computing to a greater degre. If you really want good "Cloud" computing, focus on better web applications, contectivity, protection from tiered internet structures, and community set interactivity standards.

Okey Laryy it isn't a cloud, but is an connection to an network. Your right, but your also right that a database is as virtual as the cloud is. It's not a millitairy base or is it? Why call it a database? Cloud maybe consider as the unknown for clients.
Good luck competing Larry.

During every speech Larry has some guys and ladies laughing hopefully the rest will laugh too. Larry where's your own strength? Domination?

More to the point, he hates the fact that Oracle didn't think of it, they didn't turn grid computing into it and they're not making any money from it.

Cloud computing makes things more centrally managed. It means DRM on a massive scale. It means an off site server bound by TOS. Like Steam with games you can't sell. It's WOW.

They want to return to the AOL model where they get to sell permission instead of product.

Distributed solutions are what we want, but no one is going to develop them for the same reason Morgan told Tesla to piss off, there's no where to put the meter.

No extra cost to end users, just greater utility and less waste.

marketing terminology :D