"Cloud" software ?

[Arthur Chance]

On 05/25/12 14:16, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>
>> I'm searching for a "cloud software" :-)
>
> look at clouds.
>
>>
>> More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors
>> a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data
>> from almost anywhere and with almost any devices ...
>> ( Personnal PC, Mac, smartphones and tablets ... etc )
>
> if you first define what "cloud" is - then maybe i can help you.
>
> Now "cloud" is just marketdroid term meaning 100 different things, often
> contradictory.

With apologies to Joni Mitchell:

I've looked at clouds from both sides now,
 From up and down, and still somehow,
It's cloud illusions I recall,
I really don't know clouds, at all.

Well, someone had to say it. :-) It summarises the marketing hype perfectly.