[irq]: techie interrupted15/09/2012
“ While difficult, product challenges can be overcome with time and resources. On the business front however, operating a service for profit and selling software are just two completely different business models. While at Microsoft, I never worried about COGS when building enterprise software until we started building and operating large scale public services in which case it was the only thing that mattered with respect to profitability. Perhaps more importantly, as a cloud software vendor, one of your top goals should be to enable partners and customers to create public/private/hybrid services from your offering. If you’re going to sell arms and also engage in the war (and hope to win on both fronts), this creates a natural tension in your ecosystem. Microsoft has acknowledged and understands this inherent tension and is taking steps to enable partner success by actively helping hosters differentiate their offerings from Azure IaaS. How this will play itself out with VMware and Cloud Foundry without multiple vendor forks is still unclear. The ecosystem there doesn’t even think this is a problem. „
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