You know The Cloud has gone mainstream when it gets ink in The New York Times by three time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Thomas Friedman on August 17, 2010 (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/18/opinion/18friedman.html?hp). Friedman cites Cloud Computing as one of the drivers for our ever changing economy and the need for an ever more educated workforce. This, he argues, will ensure America's competitiveness in the new world economy.
I couldn't agree more with Mr. Friedman. Cloud Computing (along with the other drivers of the new world economy such as social media and mobile technology) is changing the way enterprises deliver services to their user community. American companies such as Salesforce.com, Amazon, Google (and now, finally, Microsoft) and a whole ecosystem of start-ups such as Aptaria, are leading the way. We will all need the best educated workforce in the years to come to further these gains and heal our economy.
