Why Microsoft Is Ruling the Cloud, IBM Matching Amazon, Google Is $15B Behind

Re:Why Microsoft Is Ruling the Cloud, IBM Matching Amazon, G... by briffle on Monday February 05, 2018 @03:55PM (#16312097)

This appears to be an interesting comparison. Microsoft Cloud includes Office 365 subscriptions.. Which can have some 'cloud' components, but also gets installed on your PC. Likewise, I have never heard of someone running a startup out of salesforce.com, or Oracle.com. I would guess they are cloud based offerings of their software stacks.

I guess 'cloud' can be said about all of them, but as a tech, I would consider true 'cloud' to be full Infrastructure as a Service.. not just applications as a service.

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Re:Why Microsoft Is Ruling the Cloud, IBM Matching Amazon, G... by magice on Monday February 05, 2018 @04:01PM (#16312142)

I completely agree.

Microsoft and this article try very hard to fuzz the meaning of "cloud computing" to make their numbers look prettier. If we start counting Office 365, than Gmail should also be counted, as is Amazon Prime related products (Cloud Drive, for example). Why stop there? Isn't the whole Google search on "the cloud"? Isn't the whole Amazon retail shopping on "the cloud"?

Counting only AWS and GCP against "Microsoft cloud" and salesforce is more financial marketing than anything else.

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