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Ever wondered how "business types" who sell enterprise software come up with impressive looking "bullshit diagrams"? Yeah, those where a SQL Server instance becomes a "data cloud"?

This one certainly beats them all: it includes every single buzzword known to humanity and is shaped to resemble a flying saucer emitting religious looking beams from the middle:

http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/web_os_2009_small.png

And yeah, it features Web 3.0 too, just to make sure you're looking at the latest and greatest.



Good points.

SaaS and the "Cloud" are definitely a growing phenonmen, but I think this adds more hype than information and that its prediction that the Cloud will take over all computing is a little premature to say the least.


I intended to say pretty much the same thing, and ask whether someone could offer a buzz word to English translator.

I haven't seen the likes of this since the Dot-bomb era.



Not that I don't disagree with your analysis - but I am not sure what you mean by "religious looking beams" ?




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