A week ago (picking this up late as I was crazy busy last week) Joe Francica at the All Points Blog posted two videos on cloud computing: Oracle's CEO Larry Ellison and Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer give us their take on cloud computing.

A few nuggets from Ellison:

"We've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we currently do."
"The computer industry is the only industry that's more fashion-driven than women's fashion."
"I was reading W and found that orange is the new pink."
"It's really just complete jibberish."
"Cloud computing is using a computer that's 'out there'? These people who are writing this crap are out there. They are insane!"
"We'll make cloud computing announcements because if orange is the new pink, we'll make orange blouses. I'm not gonna fight this thing."
"I don't understand what we would do differently in the light of cloud computing other than change the wording of some of our ads."
"It's crazy! So, I don't know... that's my view."

And from Ballmer:

"When people talk about cloud computing, they are talking just about taking some stuff, putting it outside the firewall, and perhaps putting it on servers that are also shared..."