Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud

Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 3:38 pm Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie foreshadowed a couple of still-to-be-released Microsoft’s cloud-developer services during his speech at the company’s annual Financial Analyst Meeting (FAM) on July 24. Ozzie was careful to avoid codenames or ship dates during his talk for Wall Street analysts and media in Redmond. But it was pretty clear Ozzie was alluding to Microsoft’s plans for its alternatives to Amazon.com’s Elastic Cloud and similar offerings. Microsoft is known (at least by some of us) to be building a cloud platform atop which it will allow ISVs to build their business applications. That platform is codenamed “Zurich.” Microsoft has described Project Zurich publicly — to the very limited extent done so — an initiative to “extend Microsoft’s .NET application development... [read full story]