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... the same way real estate approaches renting homes vs. selling homes. Push businesses to adopt private clouds first, then public clouds second. Why? Because MS will make more money that way. A lot more money. In fact, to a large extent, the public cloud should be used to introduce services and functionality MS encourages its customers to incorporate into their own private clouds. As for public clouds cannibalizing private IT, I think that is rubbish. If on premise vendors do not respond to public clouds, this may be true to some extent. But people have always paid more for the privilege of owning stuff, and people use public services largely because they have no choice - not because they prefer them over private services. Therefore let companies like Salesforce.com pursue a public cloud only strategy. They will simply end up with income levels closer to those of Linux vendors, whereas companies that span private and public clouds, can use public clouds to introduce new services they up sell to private clouds, as well as provide services to customers who simply can't afford them, or don't want to own them.
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