Support Forums: Message List - Cloud computing - Being inferior is better!

Nah...

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:11:04 -0500

True. the confusion is wide spread. Partially, because of vendor's intent to ride cloud's hype wave. But more importantly, due to multiple technology approaches to the same objective.

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Nah...

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 15:56:19 -0500

I don't want to argue the details - but the confusion over SaaS/PaaS/cloud is extremely wide spread. SaaS defined as a web app with per-usage pricing model, and clouds are hardware virtualization and data center automation - and that's it (in basic...

Misinformed...

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 01:43:07 -0500

I dont want to be a mouthpiece for Salesforce. But to think that Salesforce.com (& force.com) has nothing to do with scalability (or SaaS/cloud characteristics) is just undermining the traction (& pioneering) it has created for cloud.

Misinformed...

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 01:26:08 -0500

SaaS has everything to do with cloud, if it needs to successful. It is characterized by multi-tenancy, pay-by-use and unpredictable growth & hence the architectural characteristics of cloud - statelessness, distributed storage (NoSQL)...

Misinformed...

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:00:56 -0500

Success of Salesforce (web-based CRM and sales lead managements) has absolutely nothing to do with cloud computing. In fact, most of what Salesforce does has nothing to do with cloud computing. Using the same "logic" one could call every web-based...

Cloud computing - Being inferior is better!

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 07:45:05 -0500

Clayton Christensen in his book Innovator's dilemma argues that disruptive innovation:
"offers less of what...