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hpaavola
The usage of "cloud" really annoys me. When people use that word, they mean specific server(s) on the Internet, but for me that means things like BitTorrent, where I don't have to care where my stuff is, just what my stuff is.
dlitz
It would annoy me, too, if we were in an enclosed room together.
jayfuerstenberg
Exactly, the cloud is really just a lonely blade server sitting in a dark room in a basement somewhere.

But saying it's a cloud it makes it easy for sales people to draw on a whiteboard.

gosu
Meanwhile, network folks have been drawing clouds since 1980.
fuzzix
'The usage of "cloud" really annoys me. When people use that word, they mean specific server(s) on the Internet'

When we hear "cloud" it means servers on the net.

To your manager, it's another term for outsourcing. If I put mail and calendars in "the cloud", would I need so many sysadmins?

Nux
Haha, nice one!
d4m0
On-Premise Cloud is my pet hate. How is that even a Cloud?
fruchtose
You would understand if you were a code ninja.
nine_k
Silly as it is, the project can be made more generic. There must be a user-editable map, "buzzword" => "replacement". I think it will quickly obtain many more entries.