[dba-Tech] Cloud computing aka "The future is trying to kill you"

I've watched that Rifkin vid already. To tell the truth, I found the
companion one listed on my sidebar, by Noam Chomsky, much more provocative,
although addressing another subject.

Arthur


On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi Arthur:
>
> I have been hearing about that for a while. There is now so little margins
> on software (much of it is free), support services are very competitive and
> add to the woes where Cloud rates have been plunging. The little companies
> are far less vulnerable while large businesses that have to support a huge
> infrastructure in buildings and multiple levels of managers, will have
> problems. I would suspect that some of the companies that you have named
> will have to seriously change the way they do business or disappear.
>
> Check out Jeremy Rifkin: "The Zero Marginal Cost Society"
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-iDUcETjvo ...very interesting.
>
> Jim