On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Smith Jack (Ext. - UGIS - UniCredit Group) <jack.smith.extern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Jose R R Wrote >> -- snip -- >> >> Here is the rephrased paragraph: >> >> Current economic conditions are dragging conservative attitudes into > outsourcing their IT plumbing; cloud computing platform providers are > the receivers or beneficiaries of exactly that (traditionally > conservative corporate IT) outsourcing. The proliferation of cloud > computing platform delivery mechanism providers, of which Amazon EC2 is > the poster child, should start smashing those artificial attitudes. >> >> -- snip -- > > I have no idea what you are trying to communicate, and I suspect you > don't either. > ...funny, I have been accused of the same by people who have never read the Popol Vuh or the Bhagavad-Gita ;-) For the purpose of this thread, my use of the term “conservative attitude” is descriptive of the refusal by traditional enterprise IT to outsource their core business applications --preferring to keep those (applications) inhouse, supporting and delivering applications in their enterprise own hardware/software infrastructure (expensive data centers). Hence enterprise IT traditionally acquire an “artificial attitude” that provides an false sense of security since there have occurred high profile security breaches. Nevertheless, the tight resources in those traditional enterprises –an direct consequence of current economic conditions-- are forcing those responsible for IT operations to find alternative cost effective solutions by outsourcing their applications to cloud computing service providers (Amazon, IBM, etc.). These latter, in turn, provide the necessary “plumbing” or platform delivery mechanism to enable an Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model of those applications hosted in their infrastructure. Clearly, the increasing frequency in offloading or outsourcing of business applications to execute on infrastructure not directly controlled by traditional enterprise IT is *forcing* an paradigm shift in perspective for those enterprise “conservative attitudes.” Hence my use of the term “smash” to describe the disruptive factor. > How does a "conservative attitude" get dragged into outsourcing its IT > plumbing ? What IT plumbing does an attitude have ? How does its > conservatism affect the argument ? > > What is a "cloud computing platform delivery mechanism provider" ? How > does one become a provider of a delivery mechanism for a platform based > upon cloud computing ? Do you mean a cloud computing service provider ? > > What artificial attitude are you referring to that needs to be smashed ? > > Please try again so the rest of us can follow your argument. > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- Jose R R http://www.metztli-it.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IBM Lotus Symphony supported on GNU/Linux, Mac OS, and Windows. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daylight Saving Time in USA & Canada starts: Sunday 08 March 2009 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
