SaaS (“Software as a Service” and pronounced “sass”) and Cloud Computing have been all the blog rage lately.  To be honest, rightfully so.  I personally remember when Best Buy and Circuit City (Who?) had racks and racks of software, distributed on CDs or floppies, in paperboard boxes the size of a ream of copy paper.

I also remember how big a deal it was to change cubicles ‘back in the day.’  Transferring all my data and applications from one station to another wasn’t a HUGE deal, but it wasn’t a picnic either.

Today, my local Best Buy has one rack in a back corner and Sony has announced the floppy is dead.  To the best of my knowledge, we’ve never sold VSee on disc.  As for changing computers…well, most of my data is on external drives that I can just connect to the new computer.  I’m seriously considering moving it all to the cloud.

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