I have been looking at the PDC cast of Windows Azure and all I can say is wow.
At first i thought it was just another cloud but its a new generation compared to other offerings and most important its designed to win corporates. Integrating with current enterprise systems in a secure manner will be the key.
Will it succeed - certainly ( barring some outage disasters which will hurt them bad) . However it wont succeed just for Web 2.0 ( of which i am sceptical in the long term) but think of corporate laptops ,PDAs , small offices etc . Once resources move to the cloud i suspect a lot of corporate private framerelay /atm links may be replaced by using the cloud though this is years away.
However i think there is a certain amount of FUD involved , i may be mistaken as Microsoft could have put billions into the project but the feature list seems rich so it maybe a case v1 will be delayed or not feature complete.
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