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The corporate struggle for Web domination is on….  the winners and losers not yet determined!

Case in point – Google versus Microsoft versus Free-ware….Who will be the important players in the new Web 2.0 world?

It will take a few years.  It will emerge per the whims of the global marketplace.  There is no ability to predict the eventual outcome.  Success will depend on the adoption rate – of the global internet community!

Take a few minutes to reflect on this ZDNET blog entry by Mary Jo Foley on March 1, 2007:

A Swedish, venture-backed startup believes it can beat both Microsoft and Google in bringing a “cloud OS” product to market. A “Cloud OS” is what Microsoft officials have described as the back-end infrastructure that will power its growing family of Live services. And — in spite of repeated public denials that it also is working on a “Google OS” — Google is believed to be in the throes of building its own version of a cloud OS (which allegedly is code-named “Pachyderm) and is being developed by former Plan 9 engineers who are now on staff at Google, I hear).