DON'T BUY DELL, EVER
- Industry Standard article: Dell tries to trademark "cloud computing"
- Official US Patent Office Status of Application
Here at "Cloud Computing Advocacy" the writers and commenters have up to this moment never mentioned nor used a Dell computer while actively engaged in cloud computing. We have used or mentioned the OLPC, Asus, VIA, and Apple iMacs ( I am currently using a new Apple iMac to write this text which is then going to be stored in the Google cloud infrastructure ).
For me, the term has brought to mind first and foremost Google -more specifically their blogger, gmail, app engine, and Google docs. At U of Washington, Google has helped create the new cloud computing courses. While there are competitors that are truly providing cloud computing services ( Amazon S3 and EC2, GoGrid, and AppNexus ), I've had a hard time caring about these because there is an entrance fee for use. But since Amazon is the essential infrastructure of long tail economics, which is a revolution equal to cloud computing, it is worth noting they use HP Proliant Servers and not Dell.
The point I am making is plain and obvious, go out to where cloud computing has been taking place -to the companies associated with the obligatory server farms, and the home computer enthusiasts who usually use Linux or Apple because Windows does not abide by the standards cloud computing operates on ( Internet Explorer fails at a lot of javascript functions, and javascript is essential in cloud client side programming ). A plain old Dell running Windows, or a Dell server -not much to do with cloud computing.
Hey Dell, note this new slogan being passed around in cloud computing culture: DON'T BUY DELL, EVER.
