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Are we being forced into the cloud?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 26 2013 @ 02:45 PM EDT
I absolutely disagree. I do believe in some proprietary information: while the
Movie Industry and Record Companies complain about many things which are fair
use, there have been examples of marketing campaigns which went bad when
information was taken out of context.

Adobe's cloud, however limited in terms of Cloud it might be, looks to me
long-term as a disaster making it prohibitively expensive to run advertising
agencies, train people to staff them, or keep campaigns and similar projects
secure until they can be released in context. Disk-based or flash-drive based
files have a place. If you insist on internet connectivity then the market will
get smaller until workarounds develop. In other words yes I do think Inkscape
is going to get more important.

jplatt39 (not logged in).

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Maybe ...
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 26 2013 @ 04:26 PM EDT
> Eventually pure desktop computing will be a thing of the past.

No, some jobs (think content creation) will run better on a proper
desktop for a while yet. Trick is to run your own private cloud for
security and independence.

As for the mobiles, I think it's just a scam to sell bandwidth.

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Are we being forced into the cloud?
Authored by: BJ on Wednesday, June 26 2013 @ 06:58 PM EDT
quote:
It eventually makes more sense to have everything in the
cloud.

You must be from the US.

bjd

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"The Return of the Mainframe", feature film at 11
Authored by: mbouckaert on Wednesday, June 26 2013 @ 07:09 PM EDT
Clouds reek of good old Michigan MTS. Or MCP's CANDE. With
waay better data links.



IMHO the issue is not "the cloud". The issue is centralized
clouds à la FB.

I have no probs moving some of the computing capabilities I
use to Rackspace or some other OpenCloud vendor. That move
keeps me almost the same control over what I do as if I did
it within my own walls.

I have problems beginning with the concept of SaaS because
you outsource *thinking* when you use that.

Especially if the information fed to a SaaS is personal and
private in nature.


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bck

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