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But, while sales pitches may anthropomorphize "The Cloud" into a sentient and unstoppable being, the reality of "everything as a service" offerings is not quite as tidy as that—yet. And, while a few brave companies with greenfield IT projects may be grabbing onto "almost everything as a service," not everyone is ready to follow them. As many of you told us, all of these new options increase the scope and complexity of a cloud migration. While moving email from local hosting to the cloud may have been obvious (yes, it really is past time to migrate off of Lotus Notes), the vote isn't nearly as automatic with each new level of "as a service" abstraction.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/everything-as-a-service-is-coming-but-were-no
Personally, I was relieved this was mostly about Enterprise infrastructure. Still, things like Stadia https://www.stadia.com/ and Office 365 https://www.office.com/ don't give me a vote of confidence for the future. I don't know about you, but I try to reduce my monthly bills, not increase how many I have.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by anubi on Thursday September 05 2019, @03:48AM (1 child)
No problems there, as long as they are fungible. I don't make my PCB either. I get someone else to do that far better than I could. Far cheaper too!
But I'd be dammed to let done yayhoo nook me into a CAD system I can't outright buy, just as I would not think they would go for a payment that evaporates in a year. They are not dependent on me, but once I work with proprietary software, it is all too easy to hold all my work hostage as incentive to compel me to accept whatever terms and conditions placed before me.
So I continue using my old EAGLE, Futurenet, and PADS PCB. One runs under WIN7 / Linux, the other runs under DOS. Yes, I still can support things I did 40 years ago.
Industrial machinery can easily last 100 years. I've seen too much perfectly good machinery tossed for technical obsolence, despite it still could do what it was designed to do, as well as it ever did. Besides that, all the people working with that machine all have parts of themselves ( their ideas, improvements, not body parts ) in it. It's a pride of workmanship thing that's hard to assign a monetary value to.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 4, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Thursday September 05 2019, @05:24AM
And that's exactly the problem: If you can't put a monetary value to it, MBAs won't accept it as valuable.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.