On 4 June 2013 07:05, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: > not necessarily; there are distributed "cloud" systems that are well out of > the control of a single institution; the internet itself is in many ways > such a system, and many of us already stored a lot of our information on a > server somewhere, before "cloud" parlance took hold > > i think we are in a transition state where megacorps are rushing to > capitalize on cloud potential, but where things may settle to a much less > proprietary norm; we do need awareness, open APIs and even a bit of fear to > continue to drive the process past the gold-rush stage > > meanwhile i predict continued disruption of a lot of major commercial > services and software companies, Adobe included, and lots of people who will > feel disregarded or left behind
Great insight and probably more than a few grains of truth. Cheers, -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
