“Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie significantly blew past the basic Exchange, SharePoint and SQL database hosting services with the Azure announcements at PDC 2009 yesterday. The announcements also blow right past Amazon EC2 and targets Microsoft at Google, Force.com (Salesforce.com’s cloud), OpSource and others offering hosting on demand, web services and bus interconnection services in the cloud. Microsoft peeled back last year’s Azure onion, showing us how Microsoft wants to do much more than just offer computing platforms or hosted Microsoft products.”
This has been posted now for 15 hours and I am the first person to even post a comment on it. I think that says a lot about Microsoft’s influence on the cloud computing landscape. Azure is a tree falling when no one is there to hear it…
It just means that nobody on OSAlert wants to comment on it. And that doesn’t even mean anything. It doesn’t say anything about the value of Azure, or its influence on the cloud computing landscape.