"'What if there were a way to write and run enterprise
applications that you could move from cloud to cloud?'--Alistair
Croll, GigaOm
"I'm confident we'll have the answer to this question. Probably
soon.
"Not because--or at least not strictly because--customers will
demand it, though they will. Are, in fact. Rather it will arrive
because it'll be the means of differentiation for late market
entrants; those that want to play in the cloud with the likes of
Amazon and Google, though at a fraction of the scale..."