In The Cloud, It's Amazon Vs. The Rest

VMware (VMW) is just the latest company to join the OpenStack Foundation, an effort to build an open source cloud stack from parts first developed by NASA, then Rackspace (RAX), and now being implemented at the latter.

Over at Infoworld, however, Blue Mountain Labs founder David Linthicum offers a harsh investment truth for those interested in the cloud at Infoworld. None of this would have happened without the success of Amazon.com (AMZN).

He sums up the case here...