Clouds are no substitute for competence

This morning I came across an AP article on Yahoo news calling out Amazon’s ‘cloud computing’ initiatives. The all-too-clever title “Amazon’s Hot New Item: its data center” caught my attention and I wanted to see the folks at AP take a crack at the topic.

The article seemed innocent enough until I ran into this quote from the CEO of Dallas-based startup Mile Meter:

During the first dot-com boom, he said, “It was a badge of strength to have as much as possible in house. “Now, unless that is your core business…it’s a liability.”

6 comments February 2nd, 2008 javier