Monday, October 27, 2008

MSFT Azure Cloud

"After more than two years as Microsoft's low-profile chief software architect, Ray Ozzie finally has something to say: Windows Azure.

The man who replaced Bill Gates as Microsoft Corp.'s top technical thinker said Monday that Microsoft will compete with Amazon.com Inc., IBM Corp. and other rivals in selling information storage space and computing power "in the cloud," distributed across massive data centers worldwide. The system, Windows Azure, will let companies and hobbyists alike build Web-based programs without having to invest in their own server farms.

Ozzie's remarks at a Los Angeles conference for software developers indicated that after several years of disparate experiments, Microsoft is closer to a companywide strategy for coping with an upheaval in the software industry — the shift from powerful desktop programs to more lightweight, inexpensive ones that run over the Internet.

Nimbler Web companies like Google Inc. have moved quickly to make programs that do much of the work of Microsoft's cash-cow Office suite — but they do it over the Internet at little or no cost to the user, and can be updated frequently with new features and bug fixes.

Microsoft has largely fumbled this transition. In its "cloud" products before now, Microsoft has offered some of its business server software on a subscription basis and has cobbled together consumer Web services like e-mail and messaging under the "Live" brand.

Windows Azure is meant to be a broader "platform" for the cloud, much like Vista for PCs and Windows Mobile for phones and other devices. Microsoft's own programs will run on it, as will those made by outside companies.

Ozzie said Microsoft has learned enough managing its own Web sites and programs, anticipating Web traffic spikes and lulls and ramping up or dialing down capacity, that it's ready to market this expertise to others.

From the perspective of an average computer user, Ozzie said in an interview, Azure is another step toward solving the modern headache of accessing files from many different devices — for instance, home, work and portable computers and mobile phones.

Microsoft is letting software developers test Azure, but Ozzie emphasized that the system will change as more people kick the tires through 2009. He did not say when Microsoft will start selling access to Azure or how much it will cost.

Ozzie, 52, came on board in 2005 as a chief technical officer when Microsoft bought his collaboration software company, Groove Networks. Already respected for his work with Web computing, Ozzie was asked to figure out how Microsoft could survive the sea change toward software being delivered online.

In the 1980s, Ozzie worked at Lotus Development Corp., where he led work on Lotus Symphony, a precursor to Microsoft's Office package, and Lotus Notes, which let people form groups to share documents and e-mail. Notes' success prompted IBM to buy Lotus for $3.5 billion in 1995."

4 comments:

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Playsite
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Uproar
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television
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Free Arcade
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Riddler
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It’s Your Turn
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Online Software

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Medtopia
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http://www.medtopia.com/ie/index.htm

NuoMedia
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http://www.nuomedia.com/

Think Free Office
“Offers online or offline cross-platform office productivity suite,
including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, email, address
book, and file storage.”
http://www.thinkfree.com/

Magical Desk
“MagicalDesk is a suite of fully integrated Web-based messaging,
collaborative and personal information management applications. The
MagicalDesk virtual desktop provides a suite of personal information
management and collaboration tools.”
http://www.magicaldesk.com/MultiDomain/MDlogin.asp

Bungo
“The Virtual Desktop suite is an advanced mobile suite of tools that
lets users access and manage their email, files, schedule, address
books, bookmarks and more from any Internet connected computer, as
well as share information and collaborate across different systems and
devices.”
http://ww2.bungo.com/bungo.com/content/newinfopages/product2.html

E-Omninet
“E-Omninet provides an outstanding virtual desktop. It includes a file
manager, address book, bookmarks, calendars, event reminder and free
POP3 email.”
http://eo.yifan.net/

The Edesk
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Package available on the Internet. With so many advanced features,
it's no wonder why the edesk is becoming the #1 web based application
in the world.”
http://www.theedesk.com/

BlueTie
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to mid-sized businesses that need a versatile set of communication and
collaboration tools.”
http://www.bluetie.com/info/pkg_overview.asp

Joydesk
“VirtualTek leads the development of award-winning web-based and
wireless messaging and workgroup collaboration solutions for desktop
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Joydesk and Joy2Go! family of scalable, cost-effective Software and
Hosting solutions.”
http://www.joydesk.com/

Personable.com
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deliver a fully functional Windows 2000 virtual desktop to the browser
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availability of a virtual private network; access to software and
files from any PC or Macintosh connected to the Internet; and
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https://www.personable.com/contact/index.asp

AppsFarm
“You can access the same tools used by large corporations faster and
cheaper than you might think. You can access the latest applications,
collaborate with fellow workers, share files and knowledge, all from
your web browser anywhere, anytime.”
http://www.appsfarm.com/

Anonymous said...

M&A landscape:
Enterprise software application vendors including Amdocs Limited, Epicor Software Corporation, IBM Corporation, Infor Global Solutions, Microsoft Corporation, Oracle Corporation, and SAP AG;
• packaged CRM software vendors, some of which offer hosted services, such as CDC Software Corporation, a subsidiary of chinadotcom corporation, Consona Corporation (formerly Made2Manage Systems Inc.), FrontRange Solutions, Inc., Pivotal Corporation, which is owned by, Sage Group plc, and SugarCRM;




• on-demand CRM application service providers such as Oracle Corporation, NetSuite, Inc., RightNow Technologies, Inc. and SAP AG;




• enterprise application service providers including IBM Corporation.;




• platform and development environment companies, including established vendors, such as IBM Corporation, Oracle Corporation (formerly including BEA Software) and Microsoft Corporation; and an array of emerging vendors that have gained traction with the press and analyst communities.

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