{"id":1886,"date":"2012-06-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/jun\/01\/why-did-you-resist-the-name-cloud-computing\/"},"modified":"2012-06-01T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T09:00:00","slug":"why-did-you-resist-the-name-cloud-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/why-did-you-resist-the-name-cloud-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did you resist the name \u201ccloud computing\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The question of course could be directed to none other than Larry Ellison.&nbsp;&nbsp; While Salesforce.com founder Marc Benioff took the term and made it a cornerstone of their CRM marketing, Ellison and Oracle took umbrage at trying to re-invent an operating model he believed had been around for a while.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>At the recent D10 conference, Kara Swisher interviewed him about this famous brush-off of the term cloud computing.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I objected to people saying, &ldquo;Oh my God, we just invented cloud computing,&rdquo; said Ellison.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that while he resisted the term, he did agree consumers and the general public needed a simpler way to understand and use computing resources.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He thought the term was overly hyped and very promising at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;People said the PC would replace the mainframe. But IBM still does mainframes. PCs are more important than mainframes. I would argue that smartphones are &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question of course could be directed to none other than Larry Ellison.&nbsp;&nbsp; While Salesforce.com founder Marc Benioff took the term and made it a cornerstone of their CRM marketing, Ellison and Oracle took umbrage at trying to re-invent an o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}