Christian Knott's Blog
Now, it's business 101 that the first entrant into a market does necessarily
win and that so called "fast followers" can quickly take over a market.
In Cloud computing there are early guys (notably Amazon), the fast followers
(notably Google), the weird followers (notably Microsoft and Apple who seem
to view the cloud as simple data sync.) and then there's Yahoo!.
CNET reported that (as they put it) "finally!" Yahoo! was getting into the
Cloud business. However, it you read the Yahoo! press release it rather
tersely states:
[Yahoo! will be] developing a world-class cloud computing and storage ...the
Company will form a Cloud Computing & Data Infrastructure Group
The future tense plus the re-organization suggests - or promises - that
progress will be... (more)