I have been struggling with what Fusion is now with all the announcements coming out of OpenWorld – and so are the likes of Gartner. Then I saw Larry Ellison’s not so optimistic view on Cloud Computing and the profitability of the industry. So, I replaced each “cloud computing” reference with “Fusion”. See if this […]
Archives for September 2008
Wisdom of Not
Who do you think is a genius? Not Flying: A man who escapes a plane crash alive (Crash Survivor is a Hero proclaims newspaper) or the guy who cuts down on air travel by using video conferencing because he knows that the best way to lower your odds of dieing in a plane crash or […]
The Year of Black Swans
Here are the black swans of 2008 that very few could imagine a few years ago. And Taleb is proven right, and so is Warren Buffett. US Government takes over Freddie & Fannie Lehman to file for bankruptcy Countrywide falters and acquired for peanuts by Bank of America AIG Seeks $40 Billion to Survive All […]
The Cloud is Falling
Yes, the cloud is falling. And on-premise software executives are lining up to explain to us why the cloud computing era is distant and the promise of SaaS and PaaS is false. I will let you decide after reading this post by Vinnie and the original Forbes article. Here are 3 reasons why they are […]
Declaration of Independence – SaaS Version
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCEWhen in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the Internet, the separate and equal station to which the laws of computing and of computing’s God entitle them, a decent respect […]