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It's interesting that there has been a lot of backlash against the Freakonomics/SuperFreakonomics authors. One of the major complaints came from a RealClimate scientist at U. of Chicago, Raymond T. Pierrehumbert. As a writer on technical topics, I agree sometimes you can't shortcut the details and other times its necessary due to the audience.

... See MoreWith regard to my appreciation of their skills, I am not dissuaded by the negative commentary because what I appreciate is their ability to look at an outcome and seek non-traditional and non-obvious causes and then apply data toward identifying the potential for a cause to be related to a particular outcome.

I still believe this skill is essential for enterprise architects as I find the most obvious solution is not always the appropriate or correct one.

Nothing short term about M-Dot's use of the cloud. Building a business based on pay-as-you-go scale and many virtual data centers. We would not even have a feasible business model if we took an on-premise approach. Without the cloud we would have to raise 10x the capex which would put us out of business. Regardless of what everyone says, it's a... See More game changer to me. Also allows us to offer a price point for our services that our competition simply can't match because of their infrastructure costs. To use your analogy, this is not a new cup holder on the car, this is wings on the car without the need for fuel!

my two cents coming in. I was the CTO for a small start up in the mid 90's. we were forced to purchase our own equipment, prepare for scalability, etc etc. Yes, that was EXPENSIVE! However, my the late 90's, hosting services were available. They were not called the cloud, but, they were certainly the precursor to it. There is no doubt that the ... See Morecloud or hosting or whatever you call it has a viable value prop, especially to younger organizations, and, yes, the newer technologies have come a long way from the early days of the late 90's, BUT, I the cloud is not the savior of the world as we know it as some evangelists and bloggers would have us believe. It's just next generation hosting, the quality of which is completely dependent on the provider and their approach.