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That’s wrong. Unlike individual people, companies are smarter and more reluctant to give away huge pieces of infrastructure away to X other company.

Pretend Google is Bob, pretend you are Ted.

Bob now owns all Lisa, Ted, Bill, Jerry, and Matilda’s email, search information, documents, private and public, and financial information in spreadsheets.

What are the chances Lisa, Ted, Bill and Jerry are very nervous about Bob?

What if Google was a person named Bob, would you feel as good about letting them manage all of your private docs?

To other companies in the US, Google is a person named Bob. To foreigners Google can seem like some untouchable entity out of league with their own company that they should just trust defacto OOB.

The others offer cloud applications and were certainly qualified to talk about how the cloud changes what applications can be provided, their social nature, and how it impacts actually building a startup. What makes panels interesting is a diversity of views. We didn’t want it to be all CTOs.

Really interesting point – I haven’t looked at it that way. I actually run a Cloud Computing Centre in Dublin, Ireland, we have a DC as well, and I think fundamentally, hosting on the Cloud or Colo’ing in a DC gives you the same vendor lock in. Sure in colo you can move your kit, but it’s hard, expensive, and unless you have oodles of cash and a second site, you’re going to experience significant down time.

So, on the Cloud … I think the real benefit is that image portability seems to be something a lot of vendors are talking about – so it is likely that you will be able to move between Cloud providers, or even own your own mini-cloud. When that happens, your lock-in worries should be as concerning. Until then – risk or duplicate I suppose!

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Going to work at my programming job instead of flying to conferences on complex technology given by executives that have no idea how it actually works is why I am not on unemployment.

BTW, Cloud computing is 2003, mobile applications is 2009.

And, what about the never-ending hubris of Yahoo! that open source software doesn’t meet their performance needs, so they have to develop their own? As an ex-Yahoo, I can vouch that this mindset is EXACTLY the reason why they lose, over and over again to companies that DO beat them with the same open-source software they reject. Example, what have they accomplished with Hadoop since they bought it two years ago?

Finally, I flew from LA to attend this event. It was /sort/ of interesting, but… they printed no one’s company name on our name tags and there was near-zero facilitation of meeting people. It would have been just as effective if I’d stayed at the office and watched the video stream. At $75 (plus airfare) to attend, they should have at least managed to provide more than drinks for the first break. Times really are hard!