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Larry Ellison - What The Hell Is Cloud Computing?
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A short clip of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, speaking to financial analysts in September 2008, questioning what cloud computing even means. He calls it a fashion-driven buzzword.
HN mostly cites it as an ironic bit of history, since Oracle later pivoted hard to the cloud.
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