Nowadays, we all hear the term “Cloud Computing”, its benefits and some baby-steps* applications going on. Google, Microsoft and Amazon are the main promoters on this game. On my side, I like Google’s services like GMail, GDocs, Agenda etc… and on Amazon’s side EC2 seems extremely cool and powerful.
But on the other hand two hotshots defined Could Computing as stupidity and just a business fashion. Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and creator of the computer operating system GNU, said that cloud computing was simply a trap aimed at forcing more people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that would cost them more and more over time.
He said: "It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign,"
A big anti-Cloud Computing definition also came from Larry Ellison, Oracle’s CEO, as “it is just an industry fashion.”
They think that the personal data should definitely stay personal and advice to computer users should be keen to keep their information in their own hands, rather than hand it over to a third party. The growing number of people storing information on internet-accessible servers rather than on their own machines, has become a core part of the rise of Web 2.0 applications. Millions of people now upload personal data such as emails, photographs and, increasingly, their work, to sites owned by companies such as Google.
So what are your ideas about cloud computing on relying to a third party perspective?
* For sure the Cloud Computing applications on the market are really great but compare them to the near feature opportunities on Cloud Computing. These are relatively tiny-baby-steps.