Pondering the Cloud – infrastructure is boring

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One thing I find quite fascinating with the current industry obsession with “The Cloud” is that fact that it’s about infrastructure.

Infrastructure is boring.

A lot of the enthusiasm seems misplaced. A bit like seeing the Model-T for the first time and being excited by the Freeway. Many (if not most) of the “cloud” startups seemed focused on this infrastructure level … building systems like Amazon’s EC2 and the RightScale management suite. And of course, this is perhaps understandable – we have to have the infrastructure first and the payoff for the winners of this race will be big. Microsoft and Windows big.

But.

The real excitement is in what happens next …

Where does software go when computing is in the cloud?