In his excellent Micro Persuasion blog Steve Rubel has written about the forthcoming bloodbath in the clouds, referring to the shutting down of services that provided cloud copmputing solutions. The so called “credit crunch” hasn’t completed its full mastication and companies are dropping like worhsuippers at a Sufi drumming festival.
Microsoft, which previously could have bought as large number of third world countries, is laying off thousands of employees. Even Google with profits still rising is stopping development of some of its services. Thousands of users of the To Do service Ask Sandy are wandering around unable to function after Sandy commited commercial suicide.
It can be argued that this is all part of the Darwinian natural selection process with the weak going to the wall while the strong get stronger and larger. I read somewhere that Twitter has secured morte funding and, thankfully, Zoho is hanging on in there providing an alternative to Google’s cloud offerings.
Of course it was inevitable that some cloud computing services would drown after the cloud opened and pissed on their parade but, hey, crap happens. No-one has ever said that technology isn’t as fickle as any other business sector and it can be a vicious dog eat dog up there.
But the blood red sunset doesn’t mean it’s the end of the world and it is up to the end users to look carefully at the offerings out there, make some decisions about which ones really work for us and give all the support we can.
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