Microsoft has a 'cloud platform' (cloud computing is one of these vaguely-defined things involving virtual machines, or software which is happy running in any old place, or something else, depending on who you ask). It is called 'Azure'. As in the colour of the sky. As in, in fact, the colour of the sky without any clouds in it; it is not called 'Azure with occasional dirty-white blotches'.
So in other words, it is a cloud platform without any of that cloud nonsense. Or, huge computers using Windows 2003 Enterprise, which must be set up individually through Remote Desktop! Probably running things like Exchange Server (still, I hear, a bizarrely monolithic and memory-hungry beast).
In other cloudy news, Google has announced that it is now condescending to let people pay to use Google App Engine, which has been knocking about for a while as a Python-with-object-database cloud thing. Very Google, that, really, Python with object database. Python, while somewhat popular, probably lags things like PHP and Ruby in terms of usage, and object databases in particular are terribly alien to your average programmer. If nothing else, it is far easier to make something which looks like it kind of works with a relational one...
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