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That's the plan
The cloud people say "We can do it all, we do the storage, the backups, and all will be safe, secure, and inexpensive. Nothing can go wrong!"

The Suits hear this, and say - WOW, we can get rid of a lot of people by going to the cloud. We can get rid of those weird IT guys. The money we've saved will help to pad my bonus! What could go wrong?"

The bean counters see this, and say "Wonderful! Not only will this save money, but we'll be able to grow our department by hiring accountants to keep track of our presence in the cloud. We have the spreadsheets to prove nothing will go wrong!"

Asking that question only show ignorance of what will go wrong. People are looking at computing from their narrow blinder driven focus. The Cloud people want to make money of course. The Suits want to get rid of people and increase their take, and the bean counters want to count beans and grow their departments.

Somewhere in the perfect world of the cloud, the idea of computing is lost. The cloud concept won't go away until it comes crashing down around us like the bubble that it is.
Posted by mjc5@...
11th Oct