re: Dell Fog Computing
"or Dell Mist Computing"
I think you have an extra 't' in there...
Dell cloud computing™ denied
Dell has lost its bid to trademark the widely-used term “cloud computing”. The computer giant had filed an application to trademark the phrase with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in March 2007. However, according to blogger Sam Johnston, Dell’s application was officially rejected by the USPTO late last week. In …
This topic is closed for new posts.
wouldn't
"US Patant office shocks world by making a sensible decision" have been a more appropriate headline
Shame
I was looking forward to seeing the term "cloud computing" squander in disuse owing to IP restrictions.
Someone please TM Web 3.0 then we won't have to go through *that* again either.
I'm not so sure....
"few of us think 'Dell' when we think of 'cloud computing'"
For some reason I always think of a cloud of smoke when I think of Dell servers... Especially when you plug them in for the first time and an "unexpected manufacturing defect" (i.e. a self tapping screw through the power tracks on the motherboard) causes the server to catch fire.
I love Dell, me.
A true "source identifier" for Dell's products and services
Dell came close. If they had filed for "cr@p computing" it would have been awarded based on being an accurate descriptor of their products and services.
@ Mark Broadhurst
I guess that Dell is now carbon neutral, can we expect HP to attempt to trademark "Smog Computing" ?
Isn't..
..this just the rich-man's equivalent of domain squatting? Only with PHRASES.
Head-in-the-cloud computing™?
A question
Ok, The first time you ever heard of "Cloud Computing", how many of you immediately thought, "Oh, so that's what vaporware runs on!"?
Alternative
Might I suggest the similar yet somehow more appropriate "clown computing"?
Mist or missed?
While mist sounds right, the spelling isn't quite on the mark for Dell. That would be more like "missed".
This topic is closed for new posts.
Sign up, sign up for Blocks and Files, The Reg's weekly storage newsletter
Popular Whitepapers
- The BI Inflexion Point
Information is a right, not a privilege - Risk and Resilience
The application availability gamble - Register Research on: Agile development - is it right for you
Reaping the benefits of modern software practice - The Register Guide to managing spam
A primer on the implications for enterprise IT - The Register Guide to email security
A primer on the challenges of securing email and approaches to resolving them - High Performance for All
Responding to the needs of compute-intensive workloads
