Comments on: Amazon: Death by Cloud for Traditional Software

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:55:12 +0000

This comment demonstrates Microsoft’s great presence in the cloud. Sometimes people get defensive when Microsoft is even mentioned. Jodi had valid points to make and included a reference to back it up. Failing to recognize Azure as a strong competitor to AWS and GAE in the cloud is a mistake.

By: James Colgan

James Colgan — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:09:58 +0000

Great to see this aspect of AWS’ strategy recognized. And you’re absolutely right – it’s just a matter of time. We (Xuropa) partnered with AWS and provide ISV’s and their customers an easy to use front-end so they can deliver their enterprise software without the need for any IT. So we’re in the thick of it. Discussing the transition to the public cloud with users of enterprise software, it’s already underway. We’re looking at a technology adoption curve just like we’ve seen over and over again – the chasm is yet to be crossed, but beach heads are well established.

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By: Andy, CloudBerry Lab

Andy, CloudBerry Lab — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 12:01:22 +0000

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By: newin

newin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:40:45 +0000

Not just somewhat biased against Google - totally biased against Google ( may be it gets all the Apple eyeballs to the site). There's no reason to not include Google App Engine in this article and if anything , I would also blame Google for not promoting or not showing commerical acumen in offering its services outside ads. Shame on Gigaom and Om Malik for being so openly biased against Google.

By: henchan

henchan — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:42:36 +0000

Abstraction is one of the hardest things to get right. Also the most important. Google determined that programming language plus some custom data services was required. Amazon decided to abstract at the level of virtual servers. At first it was not clear which of these would win out but imho there is already a clear winner. Witness Oracle's recent piling in to AWS and consider whether that would even be possible if AWS had GAE's abstraction. GAE will not make up for this by adding services. In order to catch up with AWS it would need to be radically overhauled to support virtual servers.

By: jason

jason — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:30:33 +0000

Agree..

By: jodie_microsoft_smb

jodie_microsoft_smb — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:56:47 +0000

Jofergaja, I apologize, my intention wasn’t to spam - I was trying to say that MS is also a viable option that lets developers just focus on their application without having to worry about the environment setup. Hope that clarifies.

Jodi E - MS SMB Outreach Team msftoft@microsoft

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