This is really not a nascent market any more when you have some of the largest Internet companies using cloud services heavily, like Netflix. The incumbents ha

This is really not a nascent market any more when you have some of the largest Internet companies using cloud services heavily, like Netflix. The incumbents have huge scale advantages and accumulated experience. Also, they have a huge base of open source, freely available libraries out there to allow interaction with their cloud. (I feel like there is one for every AWS service in every commonly used programming language.) These are huge advantages that HP will have tremendous trouble overcoming if it just comes out with a "me-too" cloud service a year from now. If HP announced their cloud service TODAY, and you were choosing which company to put your web service with, would you really consider them over the existing services with a significant track record and third-party support?