"Little of which, to your humble hack’s mind, is correct outside of a SaaS environment."
You stole my thunder in the article. The problem is, people like him talk to the PHBs, and the PHBs seem to lap it up and apply it to 'anything in the cloud'.
To get that high in a company to make that sort of dumb-arse leap of logic takes a special kind of stupid - which seems to be around in greater abundance the higher up the management chain you go.