Re: Who invented the term Cloud Computing?

On May 30, 5:34 pm, James Urquhart <jurquh...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Eric Schmidt is generally credited with being the first to use it publicly
> (at least in a marketing sense).
[snip]

For all I know, he may be credited with, as you say in your blog,
'raising the term "cloud" into the mainstream IT lexicon.' I
personally haven't encountered that, but there are lots of things I
haven't encountered.

But I watched the video you referenced and don't see what he said as
defining what we have been talking about as cloud computing. He was
asked about "Web 3.0", meaning whatever is after 2.0, and according to
notes I took watching the video, he talked about the following: New
way to build apps. Use of AJAX. Apps pieced together, relatively
small. Data "in the cloud," so apps can be run anywhere (including
phones), Apps distributed virally, not by purchase. Low barrier to
entry (Google tools). New paradigm for software development.

"The cloud" is in there for data storage to allow universal access,
but I don't think I would restrict cloud computing to AJAX and apps
that nobody pays for. (It sounds to me like he was talking about gmail
& Google docs, actually.)

URL of the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0QJmmdw3b0

As for putting the term "cloud" in general into the IT lexicon -- hey,
I think I used it in a book back in the early 90s. I do **NOT** claim
to have invented it; I'm just citing prior art. I used it then because
it was common parlance at the time.

--
Greg Pfister

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