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Friday, October 28, 2005

"Applistructure"? Give me a break

Lately I just keep falling over this word. (See here, here, and here, and here).

Perhaps I'm having a bad day, but this is really starting to get on my nerves.

Applistructure? Applistructure?

Customer: I'd like some applistructure, please!
Vendor: Certainly, sir. How much would you like?

My 2p: forget applistructure. In fact, forget applications too.

It's all infrastructure.

One person's application is another man's infrastructure. Web servers are applications to an operating system. SMTP is an application layer protocol to a network engineer. And "applications"? They're business infrastructure. (Think about that last one).

It's all infrastructure to someone.
Comments:
i have even seen at least one spat about who actually created this ludicrous term - AMR or somebody. i am with you though mate - can we take it out back and shoot it?
 
Great to see some support for this chaps. (BTW James, I heard it was JP Morgan (see this Shai Agassi blog entry)... kind of what we've come to expect from these Investment Analysts eh?

And Jon, I agree with you too. As I said, it's all relative. James, you're the expert - how do we start a "kill applistructure" meme? ;-)
 
You could write it's obituary and send it to the Computing Press for publication ..........
 
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