What if the Cloud really is a disruptive technology?
It’s been called that enough times. Usually, though, those using the term never actually read Clayton Christenson’s seminal work in the field, The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business.
These folks will tell you “disruptive technology” means a technology that disrupts a marketplace. The original and useful meaning is quite different.
Tell me how this makes sense.
Sitting on every corporate desktop is more computing power than existed in the average 1980 data center.
We’re going to use that computing power to run a browser and nothing but a browser. Through a complex combination of networking, virtualization, elaborate security provisions, and even more elaborate management and invoicing systems, the browser will deliver an office suite that runs on a server located in someone else’s gimongous data center.
