Whatever cloud computing unleashes, it has definitely made x-aaS a common term. And with that has come the veritable treasure trove of funny blog postings. As an example, I just finished reading "Get your SaaS off my Cloud." The posting is interesting and worth a read. But after I read it, I was going to blog about it, so I went to look at the title, and I said, wow, another pun. Hence the title of my posting too :)
Substantively, the assertion in the posting is: do not confuse software delivery with infrastructure delivery and do not call it a cloud, or at least "the cloud." Fair enough. But the semantics of what "the cloud" is and isn't is just that -- semantics. All the clients I talk to couldn't care less what something is called -- as long as it delivers an "easy consumption model." and takes away some pain (procurement, skills, time to value, ...) For me, that can happen at any layer -- IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, BPaaS (Business Process as a Service).
Of course, like any other science, the science of "acronym development" has been studied by none other than IBM. Here's proof: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/lol/acronym.html
Posted by: Don Campbell | May 28, 2009 at 08:50 AM