This is the best explanation I've seen of why building a partner ecosystem around the cloud is so important. The knee-jerk reaction when Microsoft's name is me

This is the best explanation I've seen of why building a partner ecosystem around the cloud is so important. The knee-jerk reaction when Microsoft's name is mentioned is to think of the "evil" company of later years, but they played a big part in building our industry largely by virtue of their partner/ecosystem strategy.