Tuesday, October 28, 2008

More Clouds

So Microsoft has just officially announced their cloud layer - Azure. Time to accept this is the way things are headed me thinks, with Google App Engine, Amazon EC2 and now Azure all competing for world domination in the hosting/dev markets.

It'll be intersting to see Steve Ballmer talk about it next week when he's in Sydney. I'm anticipating a sales pitch... complete with air fist pumping and shouts of "we love developers!", but we shall see.

I wonder if Apple will go the same way? I doubt it at the moment being more hardware focused - but maybe the iphone app store is a sign of things to come.... after all, it's just another thin client hooked into the brain that is the Internet.

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