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Re: Clouds gathering

John MacRitchie — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:09:36 -0000

It is all about solving real problems. Amazon has the problem and it is cool that they find a way to also make their system available to the rest of us. For some work in this area happening here in Canada, check <a href="http://money.cnn.com/news/n..." target="_blank"><a href="http://money.cnn.com/news/n..." target="_blank">http://money.cnn.com/news/n... We now have 10 projects active with IBM Canada in this area along with 5 universities in Ontario. IBM Canada probably has the best team in IBM to develop technology in Cloud computing with the developer tools and web development experience. We are looking for people who might build applications on this technology. John

Re: Clouds gathering

Tom Purves — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:07:23 -0000

Ha. Good point Colin. I think that a bookstore is the leading provider of cloud computing says more about the state of innovation in the space in the recent *past*. One wonders what exactly the big guys were doing with themselves the last eight years or so. Anyway it's nice to see that msft is at least now working at creating some forward-looking and user-centric software (on all kinds of fronts) after what, from a user perspective, felt like a looong nap from them.

Re: Clouds gathering

Colin Smillie — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:11:18 -0000

I think its pretty awesome that a Bookstore is the leading provider of cloud computing. I'm not sure what this says for future innovation in the space...

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Colin Henderson — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:23:51 -0000

Nice perspective. I listened to a talk on Azure the other week (below) and as well as the proprietariness of it, was also surprised a little that it was not further along. Why do I still sense a disparity between the Ozzie vision and the implementations. Keep the faith! <a href="http://itmanagementfeb09eve..." target="_blank"><a href="http://itmanagementfeb09eve......</a>" target="_blank">http://itmanagementfeb09eve......</a></a>