Mike Workman

Mike Workman's Blog Most Cloud providers let you run apps of any kind on their compute, store, and connectivity resources. Salesforce, which up until now limited themselves to their own apps for SFA and CRM, has declared itself a Cloud Computing company. In their case they really are a Cloud Computing Company, but I am going to try to outline this whole phenomenon and discussion in terms that I can relate to. Perhaps you can too. My friend Tom Mornini of Engine Yard pointed out that the Type 2 analogy was a bit pejorative; he thought it was a negative slant on Cloud computing. So I put the Type 1 analogy in; talk to anyone who owns a boat – 4 out of 5 will tell you that it might be a lot less work and more bang for the buck to ride around in one than to have the headaches of owning one. By the way, Tom wrote a great article on Cloud computing. Of course to some, own... (more)