[mythz]

Your opinion/prediction is pretty far off: I've spent most of my 13+ years experience working for Australian and UK Governments and Large enterprises, mostly as a .NET developer (Java 2 years). I also actively participate in OSS, NoSQL forums and maintain MQ, NoSQL, ORM clients and .NET server frameworks giving me a balanced perspective of Microsoft usage in and outside of the enterprise.

It's strange to see you've got this far and still haven't worked out this thread about hosted services on Amazon/Azure. Thanks for dropping a useless anecdote about the German healthcare windows infrastructure, please enlighten us with what % of the sensitive data and infrastructure will the German healthcare system be moving to an external cloud hosting provider? When did it become commonplace for health institutions to host their sensitive/confidential information on an external hosting provider?

[kayoone]

Healthcare was an example for absolut MS dominance. That being said, for most companies that run local IT, secuirty is pretty abmissal and i doubt moving to the cloud would harm them in that regard, but your right, Healthcare might not be the best example. I am sure though, that many enterprises in the future will run most of their stuff from the cloud because of the many benefits, and when they do its probably going to be Azure because it ties in nicely into their stack.