Last updated on January 2nd, 2019 at 06:37 pm
A recent post on GaryNorth.com:
“Cloud computing seems to be the next big shift in personal computing. Investing in the companies who will prove to be the big winners may be very profitable. I don’t even know who all the players might be. Google, Microsoft, Apple, and perhaps IBM should be in the mix. I’m thinking Google wins biggest. What do you all think?”
For more than four decades, we have modeled computer systems communicating with other computer systems with a “cloud” in between. I have personally taught classes wherein a cloud was at the center of my course graphics, as far back as the early 70’s.
The “cloud” was merely the short-hand reference to the communications infrastructure. It serves that purpose today.
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