Computing in Turmoil

There are several high visibility changes happening recently in the computing scene. Some time back Cisco announced their entry into computing server scene. They supply network infrastructure anyway. So the bid is for a complete offering for the data centers that support the corporate computing environment or the cloud computung as the case may be.

The we had IBM trying to acquire SUN and trying to get into the data server space with that. This mating ritual went on for some time and then eventually Sun rejected the overture. Now comes the news Oracle has acquired SUN. Oracle too seem to be positioning for a fairly integrated offering (except networking hardware).

While all this is happening comes a report from a reputed analyst that cloud computing costs are not all that cheap! It can actually be more expensive than in-house computing. That throws a spanner into the economical justification for going over to the cloud completely. There was that issue about some major players disowning the cloud computing manifesto.

It would really be interesting to keep watching and see how things stabilize.