http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/08/04/who-will-own-the-cloud.aspx&#160; I still prefer my business card as Hugh’s best cloud cartoon but this one is fun too. Over on his blog a debate is hotting up about the potential for one uber cloud computing company and just how big and lucrative that business would be. No questionen-GBCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/08/04/who-will-own-the-cloud.aspx#8830313Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:14:49 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8830313Derek<p>Hi Steve, did you see the piece on the Register this morning about Dell filing a Patent Office application for 'cloud computing' - <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/04/dell_cloud_computing_trademark/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/04/dell_cloud_computing_trademark/</a> </p> http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/08/04/who-will-own-the-cloud.aspx#8830695Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:11:33 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8830695Stephen Parker<p>Derek,</p> <p>I am in the process of filing a Patent for &quot;Rain Computing&quot;, because when all this &quot;cloud computing&quot; starts to deliver, we will need a name for the outputs and we know what clouds produce.......... :-)</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/08/04/who-will-own-the-cloud.aspx#8831085Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:27:19 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8831085stevecla01<p>ha ha...hadn't seen that Derek. Nice one!</p>