Comments on: “3 Kings of Cloud Computing” Motley Fool

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:22:19 +0000

I like vmw it has made over 30 dollars a share since 1 year ago today so they r doing something right,,,,,,but i think will level off and stay around the 50 dollar mark for some time and also drop when the market has the next hiccup.

By: Soberhope

Soberhope — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:37:34 +0000

Did anyone one notice the new “King of Cloud Computing” in the recent Fool email? Pretty sure it’s Salesforce! With around 50,000 customers, and the fact that it’s eating into SAP Microsoft and Oracle’s business. Also, they stated it’s trading at about 64 a share, and Salesforce is currently selling at 67. Kinda easy one to figure out, but I was curious to see what others thought.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:34:25 +0000

Here’s just 3 points the Motley Fool newsletter failed to mention:

1. First off, Bill Gates and MSFT are cashing in on cloud computing simply by the user turning on their computer or thin client. Who do you think writes the software that operates your computer? You are most likely using Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X (AAPL).

2. Ever try to do anything complex with Google Docs (writing complex VB Macros, creating a Pivot Table, integrating data from a database)? These are fairly simple tasks that any business needs which haven’t been addressed internet based software.

3. Linux has been around for years. It’s open source, free and even has free productivity software that’s nearly as good as MS Office or Apple’s iWork. If corporations and individuals are going to go to cloud computing because of the price then why haven’t they adopted Linux already and saved millions of dollars?

Cloud computing will affect businesses and individuals, but making money off of it is not going to be as simple as the Motley Fool makes it out to be. Furthermore, there is no way of predicting the next MSFT or GOOG.

By: WECpoker

WECpoker — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:18:04 +0000

I also just received this newsletter ad from Motley Fool today!!! I can’t believe they use the EXACT same wording 18 months later. Pretty misleading since it really makes it seem they are just coming up with this right now!!!

“Of course, it’s only a matter of time before everyone else catches on, which is why I think you’ll want to get all the details right away…”

Guess if they haven’t all caught on in 18 months, I can wait a little longer?

By: Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:29:34 +0000

For the past year there have been teasers about ‘Cloud Computing’. I am in the business and one of the biggest issues is security of information. Think about it. Currently, as bad as Microsoft and its apps may be, cost wise, they are contained either on your PC or on your Company’s firewall protected Server and belong strictly to you and your company. If you were to be served and stored for products like Word, Excel and more advanced apps like Oracle or SAP, how would you be able to secure that most valuable data? Even Datacenters have to provide superb security, monitoring, backup, restore, and hazard protection. Where would your guarantees be and with whom? These are still issues that plague the Cloud world. I’m sure they’ll eventually be solved, but, until they are, there will not be a revolution!