The Battle For The Cloud Is On – Who Will Win?
May 22, 2013
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Editorial Staff.
Hold on to your seat, because the battle for cloud computing is just getting interesting. Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) leadership is going to determine the winner of the battle for dominance in the cloud. Amazon, Google GOOG -0.37% and Microsoft MSFT -0.36% are all offering cloud platforms and vying for ownership in this space. Someone will become today’s cloud equivalent of what Windows was to desktops in the 1990s. However, it is as yet unclear who that leader will be.
What is clear is that whoever can win over the most developers for their cloud platforms will take home the trophy. More and more, developers are influencing how and where apps are built. They helped Microsoft win the desktop wars, and that developer-centric pattern is set to repeat in the cloud…
Back in the day, Microsoft’s developer community helped propel them to leadership with Windows. As developers placed the first generation of their apps (and data) on Windows, and as the amount of Microsoft OS based data grew, so did the value of the Windows ecosystem and of each successive generation of apps. In order to dominate the cloud, Google, Amazon or Microsoft must propagate a similar kind of bandwagon effect. The race is on to win this generation of cloud apps…
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