Darwinism determining the future of cloud computing?  Image
credits: Muffet submit to reddit (8 votes)  We are barely into
the beginning of cloud computing, so any prediction of what its
future will be prone to error. Massive shifts in IT, such as the
shift away from client/server into cloud architectures, are a
function not only of winning technologies but also of users'
behavioral patterns and of leading vendors' strategic decisions.
That's one reason why prediction is so difficult.  The biggest
shifts in IT so far have been characterized by a technological
break-through yielding a 10x improvement in efficiency or
reduction in overall cost. Within this area of technology, one
or very few dominant designs have emerged, and within each
dominant design, one or very few vendors have risen to
significant market prominence. Nearly without exception, those
market leaders have come out of small companies growing big,
rather than big companies entering new segments.  In the
database world, the dominant design was th