"Down the road there will definitely be a need for data marketplaces, common platforms where producers and consumers of large information sets can connect, just

"Down the road there will definitely be a need for data marketplaces, common platforms where producers and consumers of large information sets can connect, just as there are for other commodities." MS is entering this area with project "Dallas" on their Azure platform: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/dallas/default.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/dallas/default.aspx