The abuses and the inadequacies of Google
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A series of events piled in a few days is useful as a manifest alarm bell on the excess of hype that by cloud computing could cause a new crash in the IT, explosive now more than ever when the economy is in full recession. Internet is unreliable, transient, impermanent by definition, and the clearer evidence of such established fact comes just from the behaviour of a corporation, Google, that has made networking and the worldwide network the foundation of its enormous advertising business and its own existence. In these months and years, in fact, the situation have done anything but worsen, and the increase of the user base for the manifold galaxy of cloud computing has highlighted the absolute unreliability of the Internet, as it has been designed in the Sixties, as the base platform on which permanently host applications, data and more generally the digital life of users, firms and organizations of any kind. Despite the time passed, unfortunately, those potential consequences continue to hang over as a sword of Damocles on all the naive people which uncritically (and often enthusiastically) embrace the overwhelming majority of the web-based services designed as replacements for the corresponding applications to run locally. Then Dvorak used as an example the crash of the servers for the authentication of Microsoft Windows with the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) tool, a crash that could have had catastrophic consequences on a huge amount of systems.
Dvorak warned against the dangers of things such as “cloud computing”, “software as service”, “Web 3.0” and the many abbreviations that in these years are trying to catch the attention of the public and sell as new what is the most old fashioned computing architecture ever existed. It was August 27 of 2007 (my birthday) when columnist John C.
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