- Steven Hodson expands on fellow Mashable writer Mark Hopkins’ earlier post, which explained that Bill Gates has been talking about what we now refer to as “cloud computing” for two decades.
- Hodson says that in fact, cloud computing goes all the way back to the days of dumb terminals and mainframes, when “some programmer remotely compiled a program on some gigantic DEC or IBM server.”
- Hodson states that the cloud computing of the past was about “making it easier for the workers to access their data.”
- Although the client/server concept has stayed the same, now “it is all about companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon … find[ing] new ways to lock their customers in and make a fortune doing so.”
- Hodson says it won’t be long until the companies mentioned above begin charging for their currently free services, using all the peoples’ data they now control as leverage in order to pay for their quickly rising database costs.
- Concludes: “It’s the same greedy pigs just with a new coat of make up … one generation’s client/server is another generation’s cloud computing.”
Do you agree? Where do you see the future of “cloud computing” going?
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