Rackspace vs Amazon Web Services
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2448812
Understanding why cloud services (software as a service, saas) removed infrastructure as a competitive advantage:
http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2011/03/11/how-important-is-software/
And what does Cloud services even mean?!
Read the article at readwriteweb.com
And how Facebook has released an open computing initiative, removing infrastructure (hardware, software) as a competitive advantage for competitors.
Even email can outsourced to a cloud provider. Enter: Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) (but beta), and a former Twitter techie’s Message Bus API.
Read the article at Twitter and Webshots Veterans Launch New E-Mail API