Brian de Haaff's Blog
Cloud computing, utility computing, SaaS, on-demand, grid computing, etc. The
jargon is back. The acronyms, the vendor jockeying, the funny names, and yes,
the confusion. But does it really matter any more than it did 10 years ago
when you couldn’t grab a bite to eat at the local Silicon Valley deli
without hearing those three special letters – ASP – that were at the
forefront of our collective brain when we talked about applications running
in the cloud. (They usually came right after the other three letters: IPO,
but let’s not go there.)
I remember well because I was in the vortex of the last cloud revolution. In
fact, for better or worse I coined the category Application Infrastructure
Provider (AIP) in 1999 while working at Concentric Network, re... (more)