I think you are really missing the point, and are making some assumptions of what is going on today, forget about ten years from now.
My point is supply will heavily outweigh demand. Are you going to move your banking system to amazon, no of course not. But: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/government/index.html http://www.microsoft.com/industry/government/default.aspx There are many government bodies that already do. http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/index.html http://www.microsoft.com/liveatedu/free-email-accounts.aspx http://aws.amazon.com/education/customer-experiences/ Universities? Endless. http://nebula.nasa.gov/ Well I guess NASA doesn't need a provider as they made their own cloud platform. But they have a history of working with Google (Ames is 5 minutes from the Google campus in Mountain View) http://www.salesforce.com/showcase/#cloud=all&view=grid&sort=companysize&filter=enterprise There's a lot of recognizable names there. Amazon doesn't make their customer list readily available. Again these are the well known services. In a given vertical I've seen countless apps (as in telecom billing platforms, etc) These are being used now. Forget ten years from now. I really think you would be surprised at how much important data gets outsourced in almost any company. Quarterly books? Too complicated, give experts the data, let them do it. This doesn't have to be 100% of a company's infrastructure, but my point is that it's growing and in 10-15 years it will be a much larger percent. Just because something seems like a dumb idea to you doesn't mean that companies won't do it. I bet a large percent of this list thinks running an enterprise on Windows is dumb, but that really has no bearing on reality. On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 1:13 AM, spam spammer <[email protected]>wrote: > For some odd reason, I can't picture; governments, universities, hospitals, > NASA, research labs, Bombardier, banks, Boing, etc, going to the airy > 'cloudland'... > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > >
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