Silliest IT buzzword ever - "the Cloud"

[minestrone]

A whiteboard was called an 'Information Radiator' in here last week.

Nearly chucked my guts up.

[Xenophon]

I'm waiting for Cloud 9.0 to come out.

I see what you've done there.

[basshead]

I've used the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Its a very powerful technology.

[Mich the Tester]

There are some ‘lean six sigma black belts’ coming to see me this afternoon.

[Diver]

As I recall, Cloud means stuff you know f***-all about.

It originates from those network diagrams, where people draw clouds to gloss over the telecomms.

As opposed to stuff the speaker knows nothing about, which I call spouting fart gas. which is a far more descriptive and easily understood term

[oracleslave]

There are some ‘lean six sigma black belts’ coming to see me this afternoon.

And...

[Mich the Tester]

And...

What are they?

[Churchill]

As I recall, Cloud means stuff you know f***-all about.

It originates from those network diagrams, where people draw clouds to gloss over the telecomms.

Usually with "Something Wonderful Happens Here!" written in the middle of it...

[oracleslave]

What are they?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_sigma

[Mich the Tester]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_sigma

"of 58 large companies that have announced Six Sigma programs, 91 percent have trailed the S&P 500 since."


Bulltulip, then?