On 23/12/14 00:14, Stephen Loosley wrote: > Three Ways Enterprise Software is Changing ... By Joab Jackson (IDG News > Service) on 20 December, 2014 > http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/562900/three-ways-enterprise-software-changing/?fp=2&fpid=1 > > ... The idea of cloud computing has been around for a while ...
Yes, the idea of sharing a remote central computer provided be a separate organization is not a new idea, coming from the 1960s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_computing#History The business and academic press have discussed for fifty years the business and technical issues with sharing a computer. Much of that is applicable to cloud computing. The idea of IT being more than just support for the business and instead a determinate of what it does is also not new. An example is in the 1993 movie "Sleepless in Seattle", which depicts someone working from from home as a travel agent, using a computer terminal. -- Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 The Higher Education Whisperer http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/ PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
