I call dibs: The opposite of “cloud computing” is “dirt computing” - December 22, 2008 at 2:44 pm

It’s the time of year for predictions.  Everyone has their prognostication hat on. My thoughts?  We’ll need a buzzword for all those servers we’re killing.  It should be slightly negative.

I call dibs on "dirt computing". 

From what I can tell, 2009 is not likely to be a good year for dirt computing.

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3 Responses to “I call dibs: The opposite of “cloud computing” is “dirt computing””

  1. Web 11.0 and Other Top Buzzwords for 2009 (pt. 1) | Model Metrics says:
    December 22, 2008 at 5:11 pm

    [...] It" — putting something on AWS’s S3, EC2 or Turk instead of going the dirt computing [...]

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    January 4, 2009 at 6:38 pm

    [...] connects to a dirt bound database you specify — anything with a JDBC connector should work (MySQL, Lotus Notes, Microsoft SQL, [...]

  3. Hooray - “Dirt Bound” now insanely popular. | Model Metrics says:
    January 9, 2009 at 8:16 am

    [...] prior ground-breaking* work on "dirt computing" has proven it’s worth!  "Dirt bound" is now insanely popular.  Or, [...]

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