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McGrath: Proposal for a new Fedora projectMcGrath: Proposal for a new Fedora projectPosted Oct 1, 2010 19:02 UTC (Fri) by RCL (guest, #63264)Parent article: McGrath: Proposal for a new Fedora project
If all you have is a hammer ... That guy's viewpoint is totally skewed.
Cloud computing is just a buzzword so far and ChromeOS will likely be a stillborn child, if they even decide to release it at all to cannibalize their Android marketshare. Let's see what happens to OnLive, which is more serious attack on traditional desktop than NaCl currently is.
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McGrath: Proposal for a new Fedora project Posted Oct 3, 2010 13:55 UTC (Sun) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
Cloud computing is Virtual Machines combined with Clustering.
Linux clusters of cheap commodity hardware when combined with virtual machines provide the management facilities and power needed to run applications on a massive scale.
That is it.
That's all it is.
Cheap hardware and proper management software allows organizations to run software to serve thousands of people simultaneously much cheaper then ever before possible.
When combined client side scripting to offload most of the application logic to the end user's computer and with AJAX stuff so you can relay information realtime between everybody and their browsers you can literally have the ability to serve applications out on a global scale.
This is a new thing and people are now pushing it to see how far they can take this sort of technology.
McGrath: Proposal for a new Fedora project Posted Oct 5, 2010 11:35 UTC (Tue) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link] The problem with cloud computing is that your definition is right, but so are a dozen others. Cloud computing, to hear people talk of it, is also any web-based application, any application that stores files remotely instead of locally, and any mechanism that allows in any way for the client to become irrelevant. More properly your definition is correct, it's clustering and virtual machines at a massive scale, it's software as a service, it's MULTICS all over again! In the end it's a useless buzz word without a proper meaning. HTML5 is almost as bad because it's used the same way, but at least it does have a proper meaning.
McGrath: Proposal for a new Fedora project Posted Oct 5, 2010 15:14 UTC (Tue) by jthill (guest, #56558) [Link]
Cloud computing, as near as I can tell, is the promise that the Morlocks will stay far away: ops&admin happens elsewhere and is done by other people. There is no computer (which term has messy ops&admin connotations), there is no file (which can get lost or damaged). There is only the cloud.
"Cloud" is a catchy tag, and there's a lot to be said for economies of scale on ops&admin.
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