>>>>Obviously it is something Microsoft is promoting heavily. I receive MSDN Magazine in the mail, as I'm sure you do, too, and it has been running endless articles about cloud computing lately.
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>>These big vendors may not be telling their minions yet, but they know perfectly well that the next Microsoft will be one of the cloud providers. Which shows how corrupt IT has become. Imagine if hip replacement manufacturers sought to take over all the hospitals and started awarding surgical degrees to promote/compel sales of their products.

They would be renting the hips to patients rather than selling. Payments based on the cost of the hip replacement prorated over a couple of years. If you die fast, you'll save money. Otherwise, bend over.

Miss a payment? Better hide because they'll repossess.

Cloud sounds rosey when the spin doctors are pushing it. Bottom line is this puts a continuous revenue stream to the providers and a continuous expense to the customers.

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