This week I watched some of the Oracle Open World
presentations (from the comfort of my Oracle office) and happened
on some of Larry Ellison’s comments about cloud computing and
engineered systems. Larry said he sees the move to these as
analogous to the moves made by the original adopters of
electricity. The argument goes that the first consumers of
electricity had to set up their own power plant. Then, as the
market and infrastructure for electricity matured, power...
