Cloud Commerce is alive and well at Structure09

by K. V. Rao

If you weren’t at GigaOM’s Structure ’09 event yesterday you were missing out. While so many events these days are struggling for attendees I was pleasantly surprised at all the activity. The halls were packed with the movers and shakers in the cloud computing industry including Zuora customers like Sun and GigaOM themselves. Of particular interest was HP's Russ Daniels who made the point that we are not living in Henry Ford's time where you could get any color you wanted, as long as it was black! It is about choice, flexibility, and time to market and one size does not fit all! We're excited to see so companies joining in the conversation, in addition to the usual cloud players like Salesforce.com, Amazon, and Microsoft, industry giants like IBM were also roaming the grounds looking for the latest Cloud solution....