Amazon, Capgemini: Cloud Computing Needs MBAs
November 21, 2008
SharePoint in the cloud is tricky even for Microsoft. Imagine that you are a Microsoft competitor working with a company stuffed full of MBAs and egos. Your job, if you decide to accept it, is to get SharePoint working in the cloud. One of my two or three readers sent me a link to a Web log on MSDN here. That blog post pointed to this Amazon news story which I had previously overlooked. If you want even more detail, there’s a PDF with more Amazon word smithing here. After you tunnel through the links, the point is that a consulting firm will sell and integrate client IT functions with Amazon Web Services. After all the clicking and backlink reading, Amazon’s stock fell even lower. I know the financial climate is bad, and I had hopes that this significant announcement about the AWS ecosystem would have revivified the Amazon share price. I was disappointed. Amazon is working hard to make its cloud initiative return big dividends. But the company counts objects, not dollars. Now the job of using Microsoft applications to compete with Amazon will have the able assistance of MBAs. I will watch this exercise with considerable interest.
Stephen Arnold, November 21, 2008
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