The following articles point to the huge huge impact of cloud computing in 2009. first a couple of quotes:

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Nearly every major vendor has announced cloud strategies over the last year—not just the usual suspects Google or the space-leading Amazon, but enter Microsoft and IBM along with a host of others.

“Virtualization and cloud computing are the key architectural breaks driving a massive transformation in the world of computing,” said Patrick Kerpan, chief technology officer and cofounder of CohesiveFT, a cloud infrastructure software provider. “It is computing ‘gone through the looking glass.’ We will look back and not be able to remember how we used to do things. It will be similar to the world of five years before Netscape, to five years after Netscape."

Application Developers to Keep Their Eyes on the Cloud

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