Webcloud World

In a recent post, Marc Benioff shares his vision about Web 3.0 and what it means for the industry.
By making the “cloud” even more accessible, companies such as Google or Amazon, and of course Salesforce ( strangely, the recent Yahoo/Intel/HP initiative is not mentioned in his post), give the power to individuals to innovate, whereas [...]

As an echo to Don Dodge’ statement, it appears that Google App Engine experienced several outages recently, preventing users to benefit from applications hosted by the platform.
From Techcrunch

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Peter Laird from BEA has accomplihed a fantastic job by referencing and mapping the major players in the “cloud” industry. It is highly recommanded for anyone interested inthis field to take a look at this visual map and his blog post.

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