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+1 on legion.

I'm in the industry. Most bigger companies don't want to submit anything to somebody elses "cloud" except maybe e-mail. "Cloud" is nothing but a bunch of iron in server-room, but serviced by somebody else.

Big companies have their own "clouds" in shape of SQL and VMWare clusters.

While this might be somewhat usable for Joe 6-Pack (mail, basic Word-processing etc.), moving heavier applications to cloud is big no-no.

And what happens when "cloud" breaks? It's a mess:

http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/03/23/online-backup-provider-loses-customers-data
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