<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Good one, technology changes, people not so much. They still hate writing documentation. My web apps have been running on AWS for 3 years now with GWT and Groovy Grails YUI and I am pushing all my SMEs here to do so. What's on your side? Is UWA on the cloud yet or are you somewhere else?<div><br></div><div>My fantasy: all my apps running P2P (with JXTA) and no Hibernate.</div><div><br></div><div>Fred<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 1/5/11, Mitch Kelly <i><mitch@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Mitch Kelly <mitch@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au><br>Subject: Re: [plug] Kinda OT: Cloud Computing executive summary<br>To: plug@plug.org.au<br>Date: Wednesday, January 5, 2011, 10:44 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1400329011">
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<p class="yiv1400329011MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">That was 30 years ago. Technology changes and so do people.</span></p>
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<p class="yiv1400329011MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Embrace it or get left behind in your own fantasy </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D;">J</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"></span></p>
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[mailto:plug-bounces@plug.org.au] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Fred Janon<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 5 January 2011 8:40 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> plug@plug.org.au<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [plug] Kinda OT: Cloud Computing executive summary</span></p>
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<p class="yiv1400329011MsoNormal"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/215134/cloud_computing_the_executive_summary.html">http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/215134/cloud_computing_the_executive_summary.html</a></p>
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<p class="yiv1400329011MsoNormal">Basically the same old stuff we were doing 30 years ago
with a big central server and green terminals, but this time with the
internet in the middle and lots of HTML cr*p and megabytes of badly written
Javascript for most of it, trying to replace the horrible ESC sequences for
VT100. That makes all the ozzie ISPs happy, since their meters go ding-ding!</p>
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<p class="yiv1400329011MsoNormal">Sorry... ;)</p>
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