I’ve been meaning to write a post about the comedic potential of listening to non-technical marketers talk about technology.  I’m only referring to the marketers who speak with such conviction that innocent bystandards might actually believe they know what they’re talking about.  I’ve witnessed this many a time when speaking with MBA-types about various web startups.  I would normally cite specific examples, but Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, has done better than I could ever do.  Read this short article about cloud computing and silly marketers who want so badly to be technical but fail miserably.  It’s like a new Revenge of the Nerds, even though Ellison probably isn’t a nerd given how much cash he’s rolling around in.

What’s curious is that the title of this post is “Larry Ellison’s Brilliant Anti-Cloud Computing Rant.”  That’s completely misguiding.  This isn’t an anti-cloud computing rant; it’s an anti-marketer-who-speaks-with-conviction rant.