How curious that a post about dissatisfaction with megavendors attracts not a single response ... but the mere thought that M$ may be acting anti-competitively with secure-boot draws baying crowds to watch biased ZDNET bloggers put their party's point of view.
"Some of you will slow of foot and innovation will be killed'.
Exactly!
If we leave the likes of M$, Apple, Google, IBM, ORACLE, VMWARE, AMAZON, OEM's et al to carve up the cloud then we will be saddled with whatever charging model those global corporates care to foist upon us. Instead of a steady reduction due to technology improvements they will do exactly the same as the media giants: restrict customers and construct licensing policies to preserve their revenues. It looks increasingly likely to me that there will be an unholy alliance between the IT and media giants, with 30% on top.
I believe it is time to get revolutionary (as it is on the moral, political and banking fronts) and work to restore the balance between megavendors and customers. We need more innovative solutions like symform and wanova
... and not the eighth version of Windows or AZURE ... and we need new business financial models and not 'everyone has to buy their own copy'. Time to share computing power the way customers want it: not the way megavendors want it.
In this respect ZDNET is largely a corporate sheep, with only a few original thinkers. The great debates revolve around whether W8 will be a success ... instead of 'how can we escape the tyranny of the megavendors'. And the baying crowds ask for more. Megavendors like it this way: the media and the public can argue aimlessly like politicians in their biased respective parties ... while the megavendors seal our fate. I am reminded of the splendid opening to War of the Worlds:
"With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs ... intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us."
One such intellect died a few weeks ago leaving a company with more cash than its Government, while the world population endured a recession.
Go figure: for goodness sake - GO FIGURE!
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