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February, 2009

Is cloud computing a trap?

Posted by Philippe Creytens at 10:32

GNU founder Richard Stallman, the free software campaigner, recently stated in an interview with The Guardian that web-based programs like Google’s Gmail will force people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that will cost more and more over time.

Stallmann claims that cloud computing is the latest fashion and marketing hype, Nothing more, nothing less. We should not use web applications to do our computing is because we lose control and it is just as bad as using a proprietary program. Keep Reading…

Categories: All, Cloud computing

Financial crisis extra motivator to use apps in the cloud?

Posted by Philippe Creytens at 10:33

Working as a consultant I have many times been confronted with IT departments in large corporations.

IT departments obtain, and in some cases, retain power in the organization by morphing minor business demands into seemingly complex IT problems that need additional resources and budgets. Now with the financial crisis budgets –all budgets– are under close scrutiny but will this create the conditions for moving applications and services ‘ into the cloud’ in order to get more bang for the buck? Keep Reading…

Categories: All, Cloud computing