Thanks Steve for writing this, I have investigated the Clouds there is very limited software engineering in there however there is large hardware server software consolidation. There is also PHP CMS page generating engine similar to http handler on the Microsoft platform, it is being hyped as cloud software Microsoft knows there limited development in it. The problem is there is big money funding it so it is wait for more details because when people start loosing data in the cloud things will change. The Indiana Cloud camp was canceled because it was hosted by web hosting company looking to hire sales people nothing more. There are some easy to use media viewer engine running on PHP Drupal and some easy to use Drupal and Joomla CMS. I actually think it is developers that will be replaced not DBA because if a company runs more than 100gig Cloud will be an expensive place to store your data. So if you are a multi billion dollar company the cloud may save you money and it will help very new company but most in the middle will use Cloud only as needed. The article below says developers code that most of the time needs to the cleaned up will run in the Cloud as is and the DBA is storage keeper so will be replaced but I think that is just crazy reasoning. The second link is Microsoft platform Cloud company. How do you run a BI operation in the Cloud without automation and code for Reporting?

http://visualstudiomagazine.com/features/article.aspx?editorialsid=2576

http://www.cumulux.com/