"The (vast) majority of small businesses are not out to grow as fast as possible, seeking that big money valley exit. " This is nothing to do with what I said

"The (vast) majority of small businesses are not out to grow as fast as possible, seeking that big money valley exit. " This is nothing to do with what I said though. A 'mom and pop shop' that isn't doing product, and only needs IT, may still likely be very well served by the cloud because they probably only need a few EC2s and some minor services and frankly that's very cheap relatively speaking. 'Expertise' is quite expensive, and doesn't come into value unless there is some scale in place - I don't mean 'millions of users' but a company that has <50 staffers ... for IT there's no reason they can't be fully cloud. 'Mom and Pop Shops' want to know what a 'rack' is about as much as they want to know what a 'filter' is for their engine. The idea is to get rid of all of that overhead.