@danegeld wrote:
I'm waiting for the Hedge Fund to realise that it could buy up Adobe, halt any software development to eliminate salary costs, hike the prices, and screw the customer base as a high return investment over a 3 year interval, before letting the company dissipate. If the only objective is to provide a high return over a short period of time, it would be cost effective to screw the users by hiking fees.You could have options to out-bid the competition - suppose there was an option to buy the right to deny an alternate user access to a Cloud Service... then effectively you have a bidding war between competing organisations, or non-disclosure agreements on pricing, to screw the more profitable organsations. Cloud Computing provides a number of exciting options for short term profit maximisation, and I'm looking forward to seeing them exploited.