Good Editorial Steve.

There was an article about the M$ Chief Software Architect (Bill's replacement) in the last WIRED.

He is/was the guy that worked on the IBM Notes project and started the whole cloud or Software as a Service thing at M$. He was the person WIRED said would "drag M$ kicking and screaming into the 21st century." He was fired for talking publicly about the cloud.

Seems alot of big money out there believes that the cloud only belongs in the sky, and on the proprietary part of a Flow Chart. Federated or not this does not realy matter to me. I have both and they both have thier plus sides and down sides.

IMHO - this is more of a choice about what fits the need.