Cloud services - what are they - REALLY?
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Before it was called "cloud" it was called "hosted" or just "over the Internet." The term "cloud app" is always redundant with terms that were heavily in use and meaningful by the mid-1990s.
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At NTG, one day we were a "hosted application vendor", circa 1999. Then one day in the mid-2000s it turned out that overnight we had become an established, mature, long term SaaS cloud vendor.
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Maybe it's just my inner rebel, refusing to bow down to marketing
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@Breffni-Potter If I makes you feel any better, I tend to refer to stuff hosted on a web site somewhere as web apps instead of cloud apps. 8-)
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@Breffni-Potter said:
Maybe it's just my inner rebel, refusing to bow down to marketing
All you have to do is ignore the term or learn to hear "hosted" and marketing looses all of its power. The marketing only works when people associated more with the term than exists.
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You can't, but assuming you could redefine cloud to something else, what would you even want to be associated with the term? What do we currently lack a term for?
