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Re: Eric Sedor has a piece on tech writing for the cloud
Subject:Re: Eric Sedor has a piece on tech writing for the cloud From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:Chris Despopoulos <despopoulos_chriss -at- yahoo -dot- com>, "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 14 Mar 2014 11:35:24 -0700
Way too many categorical statements in there. The "cloud" is a lot of
different things.
Plus, the kind of mash-ups you're talking about can be done in
intranet environments with local servers, or even within a single
installed product.
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 3:52 AM, Chris Despopoulos
<despopoulos_chriss -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>
> This article is for real, all heckling aside. The cloud (or whatever you want to call it) is all about many service nodes providing many features. The word "product" is changing in meaning. More and more "products" are servers that interact with other servers that interact with other servers... All mashing up data and presenting that data to you in a client GUI. That client GUI is the so-called product a user interacts with. Everybody here uses products like this... Unless you never use Google or Yahoo. ...
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