by Thomas Bittman, a member of the Gartner Blog Network, posted October 12, 2009
It seems like some hard lines have been drawn in the market over cloud computing versus on-premises computing. On the one hand, the proponents of cloud computing are promoting a massive shift of software development toward cloud platforms, designing for multitenancy and massive scale. No more software packages—just buy software as a service. How can you possibly compete on price with service providers leveraging huge economies of scale?
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