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Google has left a relatively clear roadmap of the technical hurdles it cleared between 2008 and 2003. Microsoft, like other companies, is using this "trail" to improve the performance of its network-centric services. The question is, "When will Microsoft's solutions be available?" With the consumer thrust, the Live.com "reinvention", and the disappointing deployment of its next-generation products, Microsoft has a number of jobs to do. Catching up with Google circa 2003 is not likely to do much to close the gap quickly. There's BigTable (Google's alternative to SQLServer, Oracle, and DB2), Boxwood, Queue, and little appreciated Google code libraries that help increase programmer efficiency. Let's hope Microsoft gets its Dryad out the door quickly. We need more innovation and competition. PR and chatter are easy to do. Getting commodity drives to read at 2000 megabytes per second or more is a bit more challenging.
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