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Larry Ellison - What The Hell Is Cloud Computing?

BadIdea2008 · 208.8K views · 2008-09-27 · 3:05

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A short clip of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, speaking to financial analysts in September 2008, questioning what cloud computing even means. He calls it a fashion-driven buzzword.

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HN mostly cites it as an ironic bit of history, since Oracle later pivoted hard to the cloud.

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snowwrestler · 2013-02 · Recommendation

Funny to see how frequently the word "grid" is sprinkled into that blog post. Now we use "cloud" the same way. It illustrates how silly the industry gets about using/abusing whatever the latest buzzword is. Larry Ellison, of all people, nails it: [VIDEO]

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placesalt · 2023-06 · Criticism

Funny to see this now, when thinking about a response he gave to the question 'what the hell is cloud computing', way back in ~2009: "it is the most nonsensical .. maybe I'm an idiot, it's really just complete gibberish..." [VIDEO]

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placesalt · 2023-06 · Reference

[VIDEO] Should have had an ellipsis between the 2nd and 3rd bit, but the intent wasn't altered. He's calling it gibberish and nonsense. I wasn't trying to imply that he actually was confused, I was trying to show how he thought the term was gibberish. I mean, who would take seriously the thought that Ellison actually thought of himself as an idiot.

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