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Cloud Computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) $160 Billion Market Opportunity

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Wednesday, May 19, 2010 -- Cloud Computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) $160 Billion Market Opportunity. MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast. Cloud computing is estimated to be a $160 billion market opportunity by 2011 (Merrill Lynch).

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Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Software: Start-ups in the Cloud ?? Challenges and Opportunities

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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. The global cloud computing market is expected to grow at a compounded annual rate of 28 percent from $47 billion in 2008 to $126 billion by 2012, according to IBM based on various market estimates. Keynote Speaker: Peter Coffee, Director of Platform Research,Salesforce.com.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

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I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. Stamps.com - two back-ends - mainline service vs. marketing site. Large number of Players in Cloud Computing. A couple of the more interesting ones: Amazon EC2 Google App Engine Salesforce.com Force IBM’s Blue Cloud Server and client in Java.

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