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Miha Ahronovitz

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From: Miha Ahronovitz <mij...@sbcglobal.net>

Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:14:53 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Sun, Sep 27 2009 4:14 pm

Subject: Re: [ Cloud Computing ] Re: The business reality in the cloud emergent year of 2009

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Gabriel,

My post is about the circular conversation of who bought whom as a sign of evolution and innovation
My initiative was meant to be a corollary to that subject. The bottom line we are talking only of mergers, very large companies becoming larger, layoffs. And we expect the progress to come this way. We think clouds are such a big endeavor that only behemoth corporations can implement them, while IT will shrink to fewer and fewer employees and less and less entrepreneurship

The statement that "education insists in accurate detail and detached "objectivity", which serve only to paralyze the individual's projectof self-realization and action in the world" come from Friedrich Nietzsche.

Thanks for your support. I think different voices should be heard in this forum, if we want to be relevant. I am one of them. As you are Romanian, you remember the play of Eugene IonescuRhinoceros http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_%28play%29

In play, gradually all characters, initially afraid to be a Rhinoceros. They resist to a point where, they give up.

"Finally, everyone becomes a rhinoceros, including Daisy Dudard (a
co-worker and a "scientist"). Bérenger is the only one not to find
rhinoceritis normal. He panics and revolts against rhinoceritis. Dudard
trivializes the transformation and she becomes a rhino because her duty
is "to follow [her] leaders and [her] peers, for better or for worse."
Daisy refuses to "save the world" and follows the rhinos, suddenly
finding them beautiful, as she admires their enthusiasm and energy.
After much hesitation, Bérenger decides not to surrender: "I am the
last man, I will stay till the end! I do not give up!"

Fortunately, I am not the last man like Beranger. We live in America and fortunately there many many "Beranger" here. This iswhy america is America.

miha

----- Original Message ----
From: Gabriel Mateescu <gabriel.matee...@gmail.com>
To: cloud-computing@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 4:02:05 AM
Subject: [ Cloud Computing ] Re: The business reality in the cloud emergent year of 2009

Miha,

I applaud your initiative and your passion.
I also think that support for innovation --
for example, in the form of initial funding
for startups in IT and clean energy -- is a
big part of a viable approach to enabling
continued innovation and economic
growth.

However, I think that there are some
obstacles to the success of a bottom-up
initiative like yours. First, the current
public-policy agenda is rather overloaded,
so it is hard to make room for a topic that,
at first look, seems to concern a small
segment of the public. Second, I think
that, sooner or later, the success of
such an initiative will hinge on securing
support from high-profile public-policy or
professional organizations and from
a few champions for the cause.

A suggestion I have is to investigate
whether such an initiative could be
implemented as a program of an
existing Agency.

Gabriel

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Miha Ahronovitz <myinnervo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The conversation is about who bought whom. VMware bought SpringSource
> and CloudFoundry. Dell bought Perrot Systems. We talk why and how they
> complement. Then we speculate about who might buy whom. EDS might buy
> CSC. Or maybe IBM buys Amazon. Or maybe Microsoft merges with Amazon,
> not Yahoo!

> We go over an over on how the new enlarges older companies will
> deliver a better services to the customers. On how they will become
> dominant and will survive.
> The net results is this: every merger is followed by layoffs and cuts
> in product lines. We ask questions, in the name of progressive
> evolution, of what we shall cut next .
> This reminds me a joke. In 2050 the news headlines are : "First
> settlement on planet Mars established !" and "Texas executed today
> its last citizen"

> There is no company creation. All the masses of technical experts are
> back to school or drifting. The word "single consultant" is a
> glorified synonym for "unemployed"

> Something is not working in America.

> New ideas will come alive with new companies creation. We don't have
> wait for the behemoth like Microsoft to IBM and HP and even Dell to
> revolutionize the cloud landscape and lay off even more people in the
> name of good. Why would Microsoft start something so risky, when
> simply releasing Windows 7 will bring them all the billions in world?
> Why HP must buy IBM or vice versa, however improbable this be, to
> watch new development?

> We concentrate the power in fewer hands and watch impotently .We have
> no more room to show our ideas work will triumph

> My intent to do something by starting a petition at
> http://www.change.org/actions/view/revive_the_high-tech_start_up_on_s...
> , has the staggering number of 43 signatures. I am grateful to each
> and everyone of them. For the skeptics on this group, probably they
> rejoice in my failure so far. They have common sense and are educated
> people. But education insists in accurate detail and detached
> "objectivity", which serve only to paralyze the individual's project
> of self-realization and action in the world

> I don't have common sense and I will continue to believe that times
> for IPO and new start up explosion will come back

> Miha

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