Enterprise computing IS the cloud
October 8, 2012
The Oracle occupation of downtown San Francisco buildings is over, but the sea and air invasion continues. After painting the town red with Open World conference events, the city’s busiest events weekend (thanks to the fog free Indian summer we San Franciscans enjoy this time of year) includes lots of America’s Cup yacht racing action on the bay.
The video clip above of the defending cup holder Oracle team capsizing but subsequently going on to win Saturday’s event is a good analogy for how many enterprise software customers see all the big incumbent tech vendors in the race for future relevance. They’re heavily invested in past technologies and watching the race for any errors and where the future high ground is…
The ‘cloud’ air war now effectively IS enterprise computing: any differentiation from the old networked on-premise data center world of vast extranets was rendered moot by Oracle’s wholesale adoption of cloud rhetoric and perceived future client needs last week…
Read more from the source @ http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise-computing-is-the-cloud-7000005356/