Yet more storms in the Cloud

Sunday, August 24. 2008

Yet more storms in the Cloud

Another harsh reality-lesson for Cloud Cultists is the spat about the Ning ecosystem evicting a popular widget maker, causing widgetocalypse of many a Ningsite. The issue, from a user viewpoint, was the peremptory nature with which it was done - no warning was given at all.

Quite why is still somewhat unclear, Techrunch reports on the latest shenanigans, but the lesson - again! - is this: To rely on The Cloud as a user, in its current "Wild West" state of lack of structure, cowboy companies, no-fee-no-service mode is nut....inadvisable.

There endeth the Lesson.....

Posted by Alan Patrick in Web Services / Cloud Computing at 10:23 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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This one's definitely for you, Alan:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/25/cloud_dziuba/

#1 JofArnold (Homepage) on 2008-08-25 17:26 (Reply)

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