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Date:      Fri, 25 May 2012 14:55:04 +0100
From:      Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org>
To:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: "Cloud" software ?
Message-ID:  <4FBF8F38.9070300@qeng-ho.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205251514330.22501@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
References:  <4FBF3EA9.2000103@esiee.fr> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205251514330.22501@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

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On 05/25/12 14:16, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>
>> I'm searching for a "cloud software" :-)
>
> look at clouds.
>
>>
>> More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors
>> a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data
>> from almost anywhere and with almost any devices ...
>> ( Personnal PC, Mac, smartphones and tablets ... etc )
>
> if you first define what "cloud" is - then maybe i can help you.
>
> Now "cloud" is just marketdroid term meaning 100 different things, often
> contradictory.

With apologies to Joni Mitchell:

I've looked at clouds from both sides now,
 From up and down, and still somehow,
It's cloud illusions I recall,
I really don't know clouds, at all.

Well, someone had to say it. :-) It summarises the marketing hype perfectly.




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