Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 15:49:03 +0100 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet@esiee.fr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Cloud" software ? Message-ID: <4FBF9BDF.4020208@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <4FBF9356.7040504@esiee.fr> References: <4FBF3EA9.2000103@esiee.fr> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205251514330.22501@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <4FBF8F38.9070300@qeng-ho.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205251602350.22852@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <4FBF9356.7040504@esiee.fr>
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On 05/25/12 15:12, Frank Bonnet wrote: > On 05/25/2012 04:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> >>> 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. >> >> fashion is quite often deciding factor not just in clothes. Actually >> it works just the same in IT. What is funny with "cloud computing" >> (new fashion trend) is that isn't defined at all. most probably >> marketing people found out that it is not needed to define anything to >> make people buy....ANYTHING. > > Well ... My goal was NOT to start a flame war around the "cloud" term ... I wasn't flaming, just remarking on the fact that the meaning of "cloud" depends on the company that is trying to sell you cloud related products. > next time I'll choose better words :-) A bit more specific would be useful. > 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 could be taken to mean anything from WebDAV/Dropbox functionality to Hadoop type processing or data mining. What sort of and how much "manipulation" is needed? If you answer that it would let us help you more.
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