Talk:Cloud computing: Difference between revisions

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The following passage is strange: ''"The cloud therefore, can refer to a lack of wires or hardware ownership as well as to a lack of software ownership."''　How can “the cloud” exists without wires and hardware? And as far as I know all hardware and software that clouds run on have owners. The difference is that cloud providers usually charge for using someone else s' hardware and software resources during (a) fixed period(s) as opposed of paying an upfront fee for purchasing h/w and s/w.

--[[User:Malin Tokyo|Malin Lindquist]] ([[User talk:Malin Tokyo|talk]]) 06:34, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Actually I agree with you; it is totally strange. It is in fact very strange that people seem to feel that Google Maps is a completely free service. Somewhere, someone is paying for that service, just not the company that instructed its employees to use the service. Perhaps the sentence should be ''"The cloud therefore, can refer to the lack of wires and dedicated purpose at the client side, or ambiguous hardware and/or software ownership."'' The main problem with defining the cloud, is looking at it from the client side because there it's "Cloudy" (points vaguely up in the sky); and then looking at it from the server side (mega data centres with mobile server units and complex pricing structures). [[User:DSP-user|DSP-user]] ([[User talk:DSP-user|talk]]) 07:05, 5 February 2010 (UTC)