Re:Ask HN: What does "the Cloud" mean to you?
by Goladus on Sunday September 05, 2010 @08:23PM
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Sometimes in a casual conversation it is convenient shorthand to refer to a use of a hosted app as "on the cloud," even if technically speaking "hosted apps" don't qualify as "cloud." It means basically "running on a system where I don't have to care about administration of the computing resources," and hotmail certainly qualifies.
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Re:Ask HN: What does "the Cloud" mean to you?
by jnoller on Sunday September 05, 2010 @08:35PM
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I don't know how much we disagree - except that using the term "cloud based" denotes that your infrastructure is "elsewhere" and your application rests on top of it.
It does not, however, make your application "the cloud" - hosted applications are just that; hosted applications. Hotmail is not a cloud application, it might have a cloud back end, it might run on Azure, etc, etc but it's not "the cloud"