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There is absolutely, positively, certifiably no way this is even close to true. Did the people are bloomberg even look at Microsoft's figures, or were they too

by bradhe 14y ago

There is absolutely, positively, certifiably no way this is even close to true. Did the people are bloomberg even look at Microsoft's figures, or were they too busy counting the cash MS sent over?

bpicolo 14y ago
You massively underestimate enterprise/corporate use.
- brazzy 14y ago
  And especially how a good sales team can inflate revenues in that market...
mckilljoy 14y ago
It seems pretty reasonable to me. If Msft makes $1 billion on 20% of the market, and Amzn makes $3.8 billion (high-end analyst estimate) with 71% of the market, the math roughly matches.
- rgbrenner 14y ago
  I think those market share numbers are suspicious.. according to rackspace they had 1.3b in sales of private cloud and public cloud services in 2012: http://ir.rackspace.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=221673&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1784359&highlight= http://ir.rackspace.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=221673&p=irol-ne... So either the total is more than 100% market share for the 3, or those numbers or wrong. Edit: added "in 2012" for rackspace financials
  - mckilljoy 14y ago
    I'd agree, most of these numbers are "fuzzy" and based on analyst estimates; I'd almost be more surprised if they DID perfectly add up to 100%. :-)
- ig1 14y ago
  The percentages aren't market share rather percentages of companies using the product. That is a company which uses both Azure and AWS could contribute towards both percentages.
unabridged 14y ago
I think you underestimate the penalties for lying about something like this in a publicly traded company, false statements about sales is securities fraud.
outside1234 14y ago
You do know that Microsoft is dominant in Enterprise and that that is where most IT dollars are spent. The more surprising thing to me is that Microsoft isn't burying Amazon. But give them 2 years.
danielrhodes 14y ago
It's clearly a puff piece. Having said that, there are a lot of MS server customers and I can imagine Azure being a compelling option if you don't want to do a rewrite.
jonknee 14y ago
It's true if you bend the rules a bit... Read the article and you'll notice this gem: > Microsoft’s $1 billion sales figure includes Azure, as well as software provided to partners to create related Windows cloud services, Anderson said in an interview That is a really vague statement that could mean all sorts of things (Office 365, Windows Server licensees, etc).

by bradhe 14y ago

There is absolutely, positively, certifiably no way this is even close to true. Did the people are bloomberg even look at Microsoft's figures, or were they too busy counting the cash MS sent over?

bpicolo 14y ago

You massively underestimate enterprise/corporate use.

brazzy 14y ago
And especially how a good sales team can inflate revenues in that market...

mckilljoy 14y ago

It seems pretty reasonable to me. If Msft makes $1 billion on 20% of the market, and Amzn makes $3.8 billion (high-end analyst estimate) with 71% of the market, the math roughly matches.

rgbrenner 14y ago
I think those market share numbers are suspicious.. according to rackspace they had 1.3b in sales of private cloud and public cloud services in 2012: http://ir.rackspace.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=221673&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1784359&highlight= http://ir.rackspace.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=221673&p=irol-ne... So either the total is more than 100% market share for the 3, or those numbers or wrong. Edit: added "in 2012" for rackspace financials
- mckilljoy 14y ago
  I'd agree, most of these numbers are "fuzzy" and based on analyst estimates; I'd almost be more surprised if they DID perfectly add up to 100%. :-)
ig1 14y ago
The percentages aren't market share rather percentages of companies using the product. That is a company which uses both Azure and AWS could contribute towards both percentages.

unabridged 14y ago

I think you underestimate the penalties for lying about something like this in a publicly traded company, false statements about sales is securities fraud.

outside1234 14y ago

You do know that Microsoft is dominant in Enterprise and that that is where most IT dollars are spent. The more surprising thing to me is that Microsoft isn't burying Amazon. But give them 2 years.

danielrhodes 14y ago

It's clearly a puff piece. Having said that, there are a lot of MS server customers and I can imagine Azure being a compelling option if you don't want to do a rewrite.

jonknee 14y ago

It's true if you bend the rules a bit... Read the article and you'll notice this gem: > Microsoft’s $1 billion sales figure includes Azure, as well as software provided to partners to create related Windows cloud services, Anderson said in an interview That is a really vague statement that could mean all sorts of things (Office 365, Windows Server licensees, etc).