On Thursday, 07 June, 2012 12:52, Owen DeLong observed: > This is a hard problem to solve. Not the least of the difficulties is > the fact that if you ask 50 engineers to define "Cloud", you will get > at least 100 definitions many of which are incompatible to the point > of mutually exclusive.
That is *the* definition of "Cloud". The term "Cloud" is a proxy for the expression "under the exclusive control of a third-party over which we have no influence nor control in order to gain plausibile denibility and CYA ptotection if something bad happens". Eg: Store you data "in the cloud". Run a server "in the cloud". Put your e-mail "in the cloud". Run your application "in the cloud". See, 100% accurate! --- () ascii ribbon campaign against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org
