Clouds

No, this isn't another photography post :-)

Cloud computing is in it's nascent stage. As a SW R&D and products guy that means it is exciting, rapidly evolving, ill-defined, and with uncertain profitability. Which added up means lots of folks are going to throw millions of dollars in trying to capitalize on the theme. The only sure winners are the "experts" and evangelists who will claim to be able to give you all the answers. For the rest there is hard work ahead.

Unfortunately I'm not in the middle of this one but wish I was! This post by James Urquhart provides a good background on some recent announcements and key facets of this nascent product/service area.