Ubuntu Makes Cloud Strategy a Big Joke

"Enough with the puns already! I think I preferred Bill Gates' "comedy act" to this.

"Still, his interest in the cloud shows he's not allowed humor to cloud his judgement. The current economic downturn makes software as a service, cloud computing and services like Amazon's EC2 much more likely to succeed as organizations turn their attention to anything that might help them get through the next few years. That's certainly the opinion of John Gantz, chief research officer at IDC.

""The economic crisis will force some companies to make technological changes they may not have made," he said earlier this month at the Intellect Annual Regent Conference 2009 in London. Other speakers echoed this view, pointing out the threat this poses to "traditional" vendors like Microsoft. Presumably, it was thinking on these lines that prompted Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform initiative announced at PDC last year (and about which, curiously, not much has been heard since.)"

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