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TATARINOV "TRUE CLOUD" NOT IMPORTANT ISSUE

Kirill Tatarinov, Microsoft
Kirill Tatarinov
, who heads Microsoft Business Solutions, says the question of whether the next iteration of Microsoft's cloud initiative has true cloud products is not a meaningful one. Microsoft said at this weeks' Convergence conference in New Orleans that, "Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 will be delivered in the cloud through partners hosted on Windows Azure in June 2013."
"These are true cloud applications," Tatarinov said after the morning's opening keynote. One competitor said partner hosting is nothing new and no, these are not native cloud applications.  And the message that keeps coming from outside is that Microsoft has just not been able to solve the engineering problems of producing native SaaS accounting products. One observer pointed to the now-aged GP Dexterity layer as something that just won't work in the cloud. Perhaps we could call it "Dexterityosaurus". There was also a claim Microsoft tried to get GP and NAV to the cloud via Silverlight, which also did not work and that Microsoft's products are incurably client-server.  More than one person said if Microsoft had stuck with Project Green, the ERP project that was dumped years ago, it would be in the cloud by now. Can't shake the feeling that if Microsoft had native SaaS products trumpets would be blaring and the clouds over Redmond would part and it would be considered meaningful.

 

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