
New post format: a weekly roll up of links, comments on news, activity updates and attempts at humor. The intention is quicker hits in addition to the less frequent big posts, plus more timely nattering on about my favorite topics. We made it to week two! Another Day, Another Google Communications App 2-4-6-8: Deprecate! Don’t…

“Clown-1-1” (CC BY-SA 2.0) by americanbulldogbully007 Tl;dr: IBM is the Generalissimo Francisco Franco of cloud: still dead. Like the beleaguered consumer in these inflationary times, Oracle is spending more while falling ever further behind. A Trump Cloud? The opposite of a cloud is a clown. We know this because CAPEX doesn’t lie. Let’s pay another…

Tl:dr We have reached agreement that “supercloud” is not a thing. A note on reader relevance: this series of posts is extremely niche and getting nichier. But consider staying for the gratuitous IBM joke. Just when we thought we were done with the “supercloud”, it has crept back into our lives. Like Rasputin. “Supercloud becomes…