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MICROSOFT REAL CLOUD OR NOT?

Kevin Turner, MicrosoftDuring a keynote session at the Convergence user conference, Microsoft's COO, Kevin Turner, pointed to his company's ability to serve Dynamics customers via private, pubic and hybrid clouds. At a press briefing about plans for Dynamics NAV, the company's Dan Brown noted the company's more frequent release schedule.

"We are going to be operating on a 12-month cadence," he said. That includes Dynamics NAV 2013 which will be general available this year. My immediate Tweet on the subject was that if a company is following a 12-month release schedule, it is not really in the cloud. So for all of the talk last year by CEO Steve Ballmer about being all in the cloud and the road to the cloud session at this year's show, Microsoft is still only sort of in the cloud. Microsoft plans to release NAV 2013 and GP 2013 with general availability in the fourth quarter of calendar 2012. The official announcement described the two products as being "cloud-enabled for Windows Azure, optimized for small and midsize businesses ... " But in the words of one reseller who heard the presentation, "it's still single tenant."

 

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