Absolutely, our company had a meeting this morning, and our cloud strategy has immediately changed going forward. I wonder how many of these meetings are going on today.
No, and this morning was probably filled with companies all across this country re-evaluating their cloud strategies...
The problem is, what happens to the next platform, if they don't like something. Our company's board had a meeting today to discuss cloud, and vendor lockin (or translation... holy eff, this could happen to anyone, let's pump the brakes on this cloud stuff). What happens if for some reason an employee, customer, or some other event caused a similar scenario. Twitter has had plenty of content filled with threats of violence in other instances, and much more direct, targeted, and deliberate. They are still running.
I personally don't have an answer, and it didn't matter why the plug was pulled, but what it did was cause a pause, and a rethink on where the control resides. Needless to say, our cloud strategy changed this morning, and I wonder how many other businesses had a similar conversation this morning.