At some point, I'm going to stop citing every article that Nicholas Carr writes. But I can't help it. He comes up with more thoughts about cloud computing than anyone in the space, it seems. In his recent article, Nick covers the concerns raised by Richard Stallman (the free software advocate), where Stallman has been calling for us to do our computing on our own desks with our own boxes with our own software.

Carr goes on to point out that Larry Ellison is on the growl about the fact that cloud computing seems fashionable.

The point, in the larger sense, is that we're all hanging on the phrase, but that this is essentially utility computing and/or grid computing. This isn't any different than virtualization, than delivering services across the web and other networks. Carr brings home the concept that the service will outlive the hype.

What's your take on this? Are you with Stallman or Ellison on this one? How are you working with "whatever we're going to call cloud computing?"