I was wondering of there is a play now for IBM and Sun to take Red Hat under their wing as they move to the "Open Cloud"... That could set up IBM/Sun vs. Microsoft/Amazon/Yahoo?! Background info: http://cloudstoragestrategy.com/2009/03/sun-ibm-open-clouds-ahead.html

I was curious if this is the direction we are going to see in cloud-computing: Open Clouds versus Closed, Proprietary Clouds. I read an article a few days ago which got into how Sun and IBM could hurt Microsoft's Azure offering even before it got any traction: http://cloudstoragestrategy.com/2009/03/sun-ibm-open-clouds-ahead.html GiMP, I'd be happy to hear more from you on this!