James Governor on Amazon's Web play:

In brand, and implementation details, Amazon is competition now for vendors and user IT departments alike. If you can’t provision a new server in under ten minutes then you’re a long way behind the competition. Developers want simplicity and ease of use- same as the rest of us. Amazon gives just that. Its not waiting around for permission from “enterprise” players. Neither are developers. So where is that IBM Cloud Computing API again?

I think he's right, and I think anyone discounting the importance of this is not paying enough attention. It just got a whole heck of a lot easier to deploy a web app, whether you're working in a line of business ar a large company, or you're working for a startup. Bypassing IT just went from being somewhat painful to being a line item in your budget.

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