The WordPress admin website has lately been urging an upgrade to its latest 2.8.6 version.
I only recently upgraded to WordPress 2.8.4. I admit that I’d significantly delayed this upgrade, but the problems I’d faced and resolved during this upgrade are still fresh in my mind. Since it’s a bit too soon to undergo a repeat of that ordeal, I’ve been taking the latest summons from WordPress a bit lightly.
Then, suddenly it struck me that, I use WordPress off the cloud since there’s no copy of the software anywhere in my premise, so why should I be bothered about upgrades at all? After all, isn’t cloud computing supposed to take care of of administration, updates, upgrades and all such things, thus freeing the user from all forms of onerous IT tasks?
I guess the answer lies in where your software is installed – ‘your cloud’, ‘my cloud’ or ‘cloud-cloud’ wherever that might be. Talk of Many Things is deployed on the space (cloud?) provided by a third-party hosting provider and not on WordPress.com, so it presumably falls into the ‘my cloud’ category and I’m far from being relieved of admin tasks. Sigh!
Now, if there’re various clouds, the natural question is, who is responsible for ensuring interoperability between them?
Although we have the assurance of Mr. Sundar Pichai, Vice President, Product Management, Google during a recent Economic Times interview that clouds have “lot more possibility for interoperability” since they are built on open standards, I’ve this growing suspicion that we’re going to be hearing a lot more about this subject in the coming months and years and the dreadful – though resigned – feeling that we haven’t seen the last of WordPress’s summons to upgrade versions.