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VC Defends Farmville, Touts Virtual Tractor Sales
theodp writes "In a blog post, venture capitalist Fred Wilson gives his thoughts on ripe areas for tech investment in 2010 — mobile, gaming, new forms of commerce/currency, Cloud platforms/APIs, education and energy/environment. Asked to comment on scams and social gaming (he is an investor in Zynga), Wilson defended Zynga's Farmville: 'Zynga makes almost all of its revenue on virtual goods. I said in my etsy/san telmo post the other day that more tractors are sold every day in Farmville than are sold in the US every year. That's where the money is in social gaming. The "scammy ads" thing is total red herring that everyone got excited about but is almost entirely irrelevant.'"
And what does this have to do with the story?
Just last week, during the holidays, we had to scramble after one of our Cloud providers ran into some hardware problems and couldn't get our service restored in a timely manner.
You claim to be having technical knowledge but fail to see that "Cloud" services are just managed servers? The exact same hardware problems and related slowness in restoring them could happen just as well for your dedicated servers.
And what do you ever mean by taking a stand? Write useless comments how bad "cloud" is on slashdot without ever understanding yourself what it is? Just don't use them if you think they're bad, it's simple as that. It's not replacing anything.