David Tsao

Back to the Future with IBM’s Cloud Computing

What are your thoughts on Amazon's commercial cloud services offering or Google's efforts within this realm of research? It is one thing for big corporations to market "cloud computing", and another to visibly see the end product and its marketable use. I'm not trying to downplay this area of research as it is an interesting area of technology. What will take time is the adoption and leveraging of such grid platforms for use in the marketplace.

There are still truckloads of programmers who are stuck or forced to work within functional programming paradigm, and thousands if not millions of business applications still running on legacy code.

From my experience, there is no such thing as migration when moving up the technology platform. There is only "aggressive" refactoring (pretty much a rewrite, but carrying over the business rules)

There are other stories we could draw upon here, as baby-boomers in the tech industry leave and the new Millenials come into the work force. Until CIO's and management make the utter decision to let the Millenial generation blow up the building and rebuild platforms to leverage such things as Cloud Computing, you will still have moderate paced adoption.