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Previously on "More 'cloud' bulltulip"

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  • EternalOptimist
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    I told my client that we couldnt use the cloud because we were using 'blue sky' thinking.

    then again, I take the p!ss out of them mercillessly

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  • Bacchus
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    After his prince workshop the scrum master on my agile development insisted we use cloud updation to obtain maximum leverage in our vertical market

    I used it during a thunderstorm and nearly blew my tits off

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  • tractor
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    ...

    Originally posted by CheeseSlice View Post
    I'm waiting for the day when the cloud sales guys get rumbled, and clientcos suddenly realise they've just been hoodwinked into buying outsourced software and rack servers which were previously discounted as poor value.

    Then I'm going to make me some money. Clouds gonna rain
    My best advice is never buy software from a salesman, get under the skin and start dialog with the technicians. It's not a car or a boiler or a TV.

    Clients rarely listen though.

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  • CheeseSlice
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    Originally posted by tractor View Post
    What make me really laugh is that real executives buy into this with real money, really

    Then they cry when a profesional contractor costs more than their paltry budget.
    I'm waiting for the day when the cloud sales guys get rumbled, and clientcos suddenly realise they've just been hoodwinked into buying outsourced software and rack servers which were previously discounted as poor value.

    Then I'm going to make me some money. Clouds gonna rain

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  • RSoles
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    Originally posted by stek View Post
    I'm already struggling with how they get the wires into the cloud without them just falling back to earth. I don't get it at all....
    So THAT'S what Ben Franklin was doing.....

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  • tractor
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    Originally posted by zeitghost
    Now that's a film I haven't seen in a while.

    I wonder if it resides in my collection*.

    *I ought to make a list, then I wouldn't keep buying duplicates all the time.
    Or get NowTV or Blinkbox

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  • suityou01
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    Originally posted by CheeseSlice View Post
    Just saw this term on my Linkedin Feed:



    So 'elastic' cloud is just soooo yesterday, now you have to be frictionless to be at the forefront of cloud innovation!

    Well done those great marketing thinkers, spouting their never-ending buzzword drivel

    Embrace it, put it on the CV and keeeeeeeeep invoicing

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  • tractor
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    Originally posted by zeitghost
    There'll be a hell of a bang if they're using hydrogen balloons.

    ^Put that fag out.
    Reminds me of Clint Eastwood leaving Miles Mellough out in the desert in The Eiger Sanction. You wouldn't get away with language like that today!

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  • tractor
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    ...

    Originally posted by CheeseSlice View Post
    Just saw this term on my Linkedin Feed:



    So 'elastic' cloud is just soooo yesterday, now you have to be frictionless to be at the forefront of cloud innovation!

    Well done those great marketing thinkers, spouting their never-ending buzzword drivel

    What make me really laugh is that real executives buy into this with real money, really

    Then they cry when a profesional contractor costs more than their paltry budget.

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by stek View Post
    I'm already struggling with how they get the wires into the cloud without them just falling back to earth. I don't get it at all....
    Balloons. I am sure it's all powered by hot air.

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  • stek
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    Originally posted by CheeseSlice View Post
    Just saw this term on my Linkedin Feed:



    So 'elastic' cloud is just soooo yesterday, now you have to be frictionless to be at the forefront of cloud innovation!

    Well done those great marketing thinkers, spouting their never-ending buzzword drivel

    I'm already struggling with how they get the wires into the cloud without them just falling back to earth. I don't get it at all....

    Leave a comment:


  • CheeseSlice
    started a topic More 'cloud' bulltulip

    More 'cloud' bulltulip

    Just saw this term on my Linkedin Feed:

    frictionless hybrid cloud
    So 'elastic' cloud is just soooo yesterday, now you have to be frictionless to be at the forefront of cloud innovation!

    Well done those great marketing thinkers, spouting their never-ending buzzword drivel

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