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Plea For Sanity. Ban The *-As-A-Service Moniker
Posted by Mike Gualtieri on August 31, 2011
Guilty! You will find SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS terms in my past research documents and blogs posts. But I have decided to stop using the *-as-a-service moniker because it is a redundant pleonasm like horseless carriage, wireless phone, and absolutely necessary - meaningless because it is excruciatingly redundant.
Does “as-a-service” merely mean that “it”:
- Resides in the cloud?
- Is pay-per-use?
Stop the insanity.
Join me in pledging to eliminate-as-a-service (EaaS) the *-as-a-service term. Darn. There I go again.
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I pledge... unless I forget
Yes Susan Powter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur0g-R7ZODY) , I make the pledge and I'm at your service!
* 2.0 or 3.0 is equally fingernails on a blackbaord
How could I forget Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and now all the * 3.0? We must also stop that madness.
There's a regular rhythm in
There's a regular rhythm in these things:
1. someone says something useful, and novel enough to merit a new term
2. some others hijack the term for so many purposes we all lose track
3. someone suggests we drop the term
Shame we can't start by dropping the #2 folks somewhere deep and irrecoverable, but that's not P.C.
Still, couldn't we resist the destruction of the language (by backing up to #1), rather than participating in it?
Lol that was a short read
Lol that was a short read :)
/agree though!