Gary Varga (4/29/2014)
I really hope that the split between SQL Azure and on-premises SQL Server is somewhere close to 50/50 just so that both remain equally valuable to Microsoft. Perhaps they will add more features to the lower versions in order to tease them into SQL Azure later on.Who knows? Not I. I am the worst predictor I know.
This is my position as well - I would like real choice in the market to allow businesses to choose private or cloud.
I actually struggle to get a decent non smart phone these days - every phone shop sells the same phones it is disappointing when markets seem to reduce in choice.
When vendors push people in directions they want rather than what their clients want - it is often an inspiration for open source.