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Live Blogging at PDC - Microsoft says it will offer ALL Enterprise software online

Not moving to simple software as a service, but providing a choice of on premise or subscription from the cloud.  Ray Ozzie calls has called this Server-service symmetry.  And the online services will not just be “fixed” applications, but in the future will be platforms that support custom solution development.  Additionally, hybrid approaches will be possible that lets people run different parts of an application in different places – servers on-premise, clients, phones, and cloud.  And do this securely in a way that let’s customers use their own identity management solutions. 

To my mind, a this represents an inflection point for the industry, Microsoft, and for our customers and partners. 

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