Reuven Cohen ( http://bjac.it/brPe6V ) described this morning in a couple of paragraphs ( http://bjac.it/aSDu5x ) what I have been trying to explain for the last 18 months. The Pervasive DataCloud2 is not a competitor to other clouds or Platforms as a Service, but a complementary service.
I would go a step further and say that the boutique cloud services are critical for the continued success for the likes of Amazon, Microsoft and force.com. I am sure that the guys in Seattle (both groups) and the teams in the valley ( http://bjac.it/aJqxjd ) would like to tell you that they can be everything to everyone. But they know as well as we do that is not part of their strategy. Sure, they will try to offer as much as they can in terms of variety of service, but in the end compromises will be made for the greater good of all.
Pervasive DataCloud2 and services like it add pieces ( http://bit.ly/j4n2U ) that these vendors cannot and probably should not offer as part of their platform. Can a guy like Mark Benioff really justify spending time helping a company integrate their Netsuite with an on premise SAP implementation? Hosting the service infrastructure makes perfect sense for Amazon, but should they develop the integration expertise? Should Steve Ballmer and the crew in Redmond really be in the business of analyzing an organization’s healthcare data?
I say no to all of the above, and even though they will not say it publicly, I am guessing the above list of cloud vendors know that it is a truth and fact that niche cloud services guys are a key component of their success. You are welcome guys!