Best Joke at Structure 09

In his fireside chat, Marc Benioff kept using the term aZUNE to refer to Microsoft's Cloud Platform. You have to wonder if the naming mavens thought of this when they picked Azure? The second best joke was when the Google guys were pointing at interesting things Google had published and kept saying "if you ‘Bing' for it you will find it." There were lots of Cloud puns but generally you "had to be there." BTW, Azure was delightfully well represented at the meeting and on the side reported that they are on track for announcing pricing this summer and a commercial release by the end of year (what they said at the STB analyst meeting as well). Remember that Azure isn't competing with Amazon (selling raw VM's). The MS goal is to provide the preferred Cloud solution for their 3MM developers and 400,000 business partners. So far they are on the path of under committing and over delivering, and letting the market tell them what they should focus on next.