Do Believe the Hype

I’m just wading through my mass of Google alerts and I found a really great article on ZD Net by Cath Everett called Five cloud computing myths exploded.

She says that Cloud computing is “one of the most over hyped phenomena to have hit the IT industry in a long time”. There’s certainly a lot of hype surrounding the Cloud, and specifically SaaS. But that’s because it really is a game changer. If Microsoft say they’re making it their #1 priority, it’s got to be pretty big.

As regular readers of this blog will know, the UK’s biggest software firm, Sage, have also made a move on the SaaS accounting space. So do believe the hype.

The article talks a lot of sense. There’s only one point I disagree.

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