The key phrase in a post on the Dynamics Community blog by Paul White, senior director of Microsoft Dynamics ERP says that, "This means your solution can now be hosted in a secure, private cloud on a Windows Azure Virtual Machine.”  Dynamics Certified Partners can deploy the products on Windows Azure Infrastructure Services. Is this a big deal? “It all depends on who you talk to,” said one reseller. Looking at all the explanations of private clouds on the Internet, I sense that the debate of the pro and cons with this approach cannot be easily exhausted. However, it is worth repeating the view of NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson who was able to tee off on the Azure announcement during a presentation this week. "Turn the wayback machine to 1999", was how Nelson described the Azure release during the Credit Suisse Disruptive Technology Conference. Quoting from Microsoft material, Nelson said Great Plains must be separately installed. Users need to monitor and install service packs and they must manage servers. Users also need virtual machines to run web services, two clients, SQL Server and must have a VPN." “This is their definition of the cloud. It’s not the cloud," NetSuite said.