Larry Ellison on cloud computing, with Ed Zander at the Churchill Club 9.21.09

Larry Ellison, in conversation with Ed Zander at the Churchill Club 9.29.09

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[albanaco]

Larry certainly appears to have missed the whole point of the term...cloud computing is simply a recognition of the fact that enough Internet hardware has been deployed that it is now possible to architect high-level solutions around the "cloud" without having to be specifically concerned about the feasibility of the interconnections between the actors in the solution...of course, Larry's not that dumb...he is simply trying to shift the marketing buzz back toward Oracle..

[jppputube]

he is not missing the point, he is deliberately trying to confuse the point while thinking he is so clever. "Cloud Computing" never meant that you get computing done by any kind of vapour. It was a term made to emphasize that the users are unaware or unaffected by the details of the computing infrastructure they use. Users dont need to know which OS or CPU or Database engine is delivering service (its probably the last bit that pissed off this c()cksucker.

[Dimitry Bruk]

Fucking asshole destroyed Motorola and it cost me my job in 2008. Zander is an idiot.

[John Bargman]

go back to programming java.

[Traumglanz]

And when they started to offer software as a hardware service?

[Traumglanz]

Renting servers is not cloud computing. Renting resources is. That's the whole point of the cloud, you do not care anymore about the servers, you do not care anymore about the network. The cloud is "just" another layer of abstraction. Sure below there is our old servers, our old hardware, our old network. Still the cloud is a new way to access those resources, a new way to rent these resources, a new way to use this resources dynamic.

All this is well known to Ellison, but it endangers oracle.

[Traumglanz]

At least he did not start to tell us about his yacht. Oh damn, he did try that too ...

[RocknRollhoochiecoo1]

His leg crossing is so sexy.

[Toby Booth]

And today he decided to announce Oracle Public Cloud. Really? So Larry, tell me... what do YOU mean by cloud?

[ninuxy]

Accessing information over a network, as he simplistically averred, is entirely different from being able to allocate resources on demand depending on the need, workload, etc., to save money.

Larry is a charlatan and his entire company runs as one big marketing scam, pushed by the salesmen who do anything to shove their bloated, ineffectual products down companies' throat.

I know at least two dozen architecture level techies in large corporations who are clamoring over Oracle products.

[MrCuntyballs2U]

Shit he does not even know he is a dinosaur...... Extinction beckons