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The Uncertain Promise of Utility Computing
icke writes "A quick overview of where the Economist thinks we are with the The Next Big Thing, also known as Stuff that doesn't work yet. Quoting: 'It is increasingly painful to watch Carly Fiorina, the boss of Hewlett-Packard (HP), as she tries to explain to yet another conference audience what her new grand vision of "adaptive" information technology is about. It has something to do with "Darwinian reference architectures", she suggests, and also with "modularising" and "integrating", as well as with lots of "enabling" and "processes". IBM, HP's arch rival, is trying even harder, with a marketing splurge for what it calls "on-demand computing". Microsoft's Bill Gates talks of "seamless computing". Other vendors prefer "ubiquitous", "autonomous" or "utility" computing. Forrester Research, a consultancy, likes "organic". Gartner, a rival, opts for "real-time". Clearly, something monumental must be going on in the world of computing for these technology titans simultaneously to discover something that is so profound and yet so hard to name.'"
damn if the lights would just stop flickering
Its just the psychologists they use for marketing having a little joke.
Move along people, nothing to see here.
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'It is increasingly painful to watch Carly Fiorina...'
what are they talking about? she's a babe!
I KNEW this was an article about Linux!
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
An appropriate term is:
Bullshit Computing
or maybe PADOS "Pump And Dump Our Stock" Computing
Clearly, something monumental must be going on in the world of computing for these technology titans simultaneously to discover something that is so profound and yet so hard to name.
I think it's clear they are all refering to SkyOS. It's been rumoured that HP is planning on dropping HP-UX in favor of SkyOS sometime in 2004.
What will they talk about?
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Look at it this way... if we cant work out what a "Darwinian reference architecture" is, the indians must be totally fucking baffled!
I have no idea what I just said.
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So they'll be teenage girls. Great. Now I'm going to have to tell my computer how pretty it is before it'll let me run anything.
Those are all perfectly cromulent explanations, and if you don't understand them then perhaps you need to reentagulate your marketing 101 book!
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
It's so hard to name because these companies all lack the synergistic, results-driven leverage that will incentivize their paradigm shift.
Examples:
Wal-Mart: We sell everything everywhere, for cheap.
Banks: We give money to people, and they give us more money back later.
McDonalds: We make fast food that kids like and parents put up with.
In-N-Out: We make fast food that everyone likes.
Dell: We make cheap computers.
Microsoft: We make software, and whatever else we want.
SCO: We sue people.
- The Amazina Llama
Do the toaster and hot tub banter about the intricacies of heating water vs. heating bread? Do they make the inkjet feel left out because it has DRM cooties? Do they make "binary-system" jokes behind the garage door opener's back?
I learned everything I know about computing on demand (CoD) by watching Star Trek. Let me show you two examples:
1. Without CoD:
Captain Archer is hiding in the cargo bay and devises a plan to retake control of the ship. But it requires that enviromental control is rerouted to sickbay and that can only be done from the bridge where the evil mad man is.
2. With CoD:
Worf remodulates the phasers to match enemy shields and devices a new search pattern for the torpedoes by pressing 3 buttons on the console in front of him.
CoD is when stuff works without any fuss and there are no problems. They simply want everything to be as in ST:TNG.
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Um,Carly's having a hard time explaining what it is because she really means "Utility outsourcing' but she doesn't know how to translate that from Hindu to English. But that's okay, it's not her audience's god-given right to understand her.
What will they talk about?
If it's like computers nowadays, it will be porn.
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"Derp de derp."
A steel door closed and the captain was on his own again. He hummed quietly and mused to himself, lightly fingering his notebook of verses.
"Hmmm," he said, "lack the synergistic, results-driven leverage that will incentivize their paradigm shift..." He considered this for a moment, and then closed the book with a grim smile.
Death's too good for them," he said.
Chuck Norris: Socialism == a thousand years of darkness.
If you pay attention to her speeches... Yeah, I know, even the tape recorder falls asleep. But if it was possible, the problem is that her ideas aren't too complicated, it's that they're too simple to be sold.
We automate stuff.
Well, yes, that's what all I.T. departments do. HP doesn't even do it particularly well. That's why they need to say that they enable adaptive cross-platform solutions for process-centric business aplications. I used to facilitate reliable time-sensitive information distribution services because it wasn't that impressive to just have a paper route.
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