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Regarding the “get with cloud or get fired” article… I’ve read that three times and it sounds like Miha Kralj is saying we’re going to get fired whether we “get with the cloud” or not. I didn’t really see an either-or scenario in his statements; it’s as if he is saying “this is coming, and there is nothing you can do about it.” If that is really his opinion, then it would seem that “getting with the cloud” is doing little more than hastening the end of our profession. If this was supposed to be a sales pitch for the Azure platform, it sucked.
As for his prediction of the future: Bionic engineers? Really? Is there such a thing? Sounds like the old NAFTA argument from the early ’90s hooked up with Star Trek and had a love child. “Your jobs are going away, but they’ll be replaced by…um…bionic engineers! Yeah!”
Cloud computing is a new name for an old concept. People have rented other companies’ computer time, network capacity and software for decades. (They used to call it “time-sharing” back in the 1960′s.) Web applications have been widely used for at least 10 years. The only thing that is different this time around is the use of virtualization, and while it’s a great tool, I don’t see it as an agent of impending mass unemployment.
Parting thought–Microsoft sells PC operating systems and applications–i.e. Windows and Office and a lot of server software. If everybody moves to the cloud as Miha Kralj (a Microsoft employee) predicts, at the very least the server side of Microsoft’s business will be greatly diminished. Worst case scenario: we all run some form of Google’s Chrome OS, run all our apps “in the cloud”, and stop buying Windows and Office–which puts Microsoft, in its current form, out of business. In which case Miha will be standing in the unemployment line along with the rest of us.