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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.'"
I'm really glad I didn't step on any sacred cows here... I'm not Xenaphobic, I liked her, and Gabrielle too. (joke for you non-Americans) Maybe I should have done a typecast on Hindu to Hindi. It's the compiler's fault. Hey, I'd welcome anyone who can translate from Scientology to Human...Have I insulted enough people yet? Do they make cheese with the milk from sacred cows? I guess that would be holy. Must be Swiss. Ok, attack away.