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

curious if Larry is worried that most of Oracle licensing is on a per seat basis and cloud delivery will make it very hard to track how many seats and severely reduce revenues...

Once again, Larry is right on the money...

There are 3 primary layers to cloud, SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. The latter is what he references the most when he discusses hardware, networking and databases. What is new in IaaS is that the consumer need not own any of this.

Virtualization and automation technologies create cloud concepts such as elasticity of demand and rapid provisioning. A computer network can reside in a cloud and non-cloud infrastructure; you can distinguish which it is in using cloud concepts.

Is it just me or anyone having audio problem? I get to LOL on most part but some places its left to guess work.
But still, I love his passion and his pun on several pointers are truth. GO! Larry!

Larry has not missed the point. He rightly points out that "cloud" is just another utterly meaningless term that does nothing to advance the discussion of networked services.

And if I were you, I would remain just as concerned about the interconnections, regardless what terminology you choose to adopt.

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..

CLOUD!

gotta love Larry's passion........he's right........simply coming up with a slogan is not creating new technology!