[olug] Chrome

[T. J. Brumfield]

I'm not sure that each end user will sign on to a WebOS, but
businesses are seeing the savings in virtualization.  Cloud computing
is the next extension from that.  Not everyone will jump on the boat,
but cloud computing will become more and more important regardless.

Some people are scared that cloud computing will mean that SysAdmins
will be out of work.  What it really means is that SysAdmins will be
working for the cloud company whose sole purpose is IT driven as
opposed to separate industries that don't understand IT.  I welcome
that change.

-- T. J.

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Will Langford <unfies at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Eventually we'll all be working for cloud providers/SAAS providers, or we
>> won't be working with linux.
>
>
> I honestly don't think so.
>
> While access to your data from any location and any device is... luring... I
> doubt we'll be heading back to the days of the dumb terminal and mainframe
> approach.  There's many reasons why... paranoia,
> not-wanting-everything-networked (see NAT toaster thread a while back),
> speed, etc.  Even with a smarter local terminal, I still just don't see it
> happening.
>
> As it is, I'm starting to see folly in having many of my important things in
> a web-only based environment.  There was a slashdot thread a while back
> about how to backup data you have on google... dunno if the thread produced
> any results.  Can probably IMAP mirror gmail, but what about the other apps
> ?  And paranoia/security is always a fun issue.
>
> Chrome, or any browser in a KIOSK mode makes perfect sense for google.  I've
> made similar comments to others as well for some time (nothing on list,
> tho).
>
> A similarly fun thing to note would be many ISP's instituting bandwidth
> caps/budgets.  At what point do those interfere with cloud computing ?
>
> -Will
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