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This is the best explanation I've seen of why building a partner ecosystem around the cloud is so important.

The knee-jerk reaction when Microsoft's name is mentioned is to think of the "evil" company of later years, but they played a big part in building our industry largely by virtue of their partner/ecosystem strategy.

Microsoft of the old "Gates" days build a developer ecosystem built for geeks to create value. Microsoft only killed competitors never partners