No, we've already lost to the people using "the cloud".
When you've got players like Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Oracle, Cisco, Amazon, Sales Force, etc - all referring to important parts of what they do as being "the cloud" (and all having different explanations of what "cloud computing" is), it's clear the the terminology is here to stay, no matter what it's origins or the intents/uses people once had for it.
If you read my post again, it seems we're "violently agreeing".
As I said, I doubt we'll get rid of the phrase.
Then again, from this point forward, I have every intention of
depicting the Internet in network drawings as a fishing net
labeled "Net" with the hope of tricking the marketing types into
using "In the Net" rather than "In the Cloud". I doubt it will
work, but it would still be fun to try. ;)
Heh. I think I might start drawing Visio diagrams with what used to be labelled "the cloud" instead labelled "the marketing department". When anybody asks, I'll say "nobody knows or can explain what happens in there or why, we just know that you put data in, and usually _something_ arrives at the destination. Company policy dictates that we have to use it, so we send all our data through it in ways where we can detect and correct any changes made in transit" ;-)
When you've got players like Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Oracle, Cisco, Amazon, Sales Force, etc - all referring to important parts of what they do as being "the cloud" (and all having different explanations of what "cloud computing" is), it's clear the the terminology is here to stay, no matter what it's origins or the intents/uses people once had for it.