Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Seems Microsoft, which doesn't want to buy Yahoo anymore, has rustled Yahoo's VP of search technology Sean Suchter, the Inktomi legacy who ran Yahoo's search engine, responsible for engineering and P&L.
He's due to leave Yahoo right before Christmas. Microsoft said at press time that he would be general manager of its Silicon Valley Search Technology Center working on Live Search.
Meanwhile, Kara Swisher of BoomTown, who's had the inside track on all things Yahoo from the beginning, thinks that Microsoft is trying to hire the former EVP of engineering of Yahoo's Search and Advertising Technology Group Qi Lu, who quit in disgust in June.
If she's right, he would run Microsoft's digital operations, the job it's had open since Kevin Johnson up and quit after he couldn't buy Yahoo.
About Maureen O'Gara Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025. Twitter: @MaureenOGara
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