But would that have great business potential to them? For Amazon, having that infrastructure helped create not just future products (Instant Video, Amazon Music Cloud, Amazon Cloud Drive, the Kindle and Kindle Fire backend systems), but was aligned as an additional revenue source.

You'd have to wonder if enough people would want to use Netflix's technology stack in a way that didn't include distribution on Netflix.

The entire television/sports/web video/publishing industry may be able to find a use for such a thing

That's valid, except most of them have their own solution partners. What I mean is, does Netflix want to invest the resources that would necessitate making this an offering for all but the biggest customers.

Keep in mind, Netflix is one of the BIGGEST online video providers, period. Very few companies are going to need some sort of solution at their scale -- and those that do, likely have their own solutions. That means, your target market are smaller companies.

I just don't see Netflix interested in getting into a space that Brightcove and 5Min already dominate on the smaller web side -- and that custom Amazon, Level 3 and Akamai contracts take care of on the high end.

Netflix built this solution because it hopes that it will save them money and resources, somehow, I doubt that it's s scalable model (at least in terms of Netflix's required investment for support and sales) to offer to other partners.

I could be wrong, I'm just not sure I see the potential for a company that's biggest competitor is HBO.

Netflix has a very different attitude than Amazon; they wanted to spin off DVD rental because it was distracting from their real business.