Speaking of web services, consider the market share of the major web services providers. It depicts a classic oligopoly with the early mover, Amazon, holding 31% of the market, Microsoft, the next largest, 9%, IBM holding 7%, Google 4%, Salesforce 4%, and a “long tail” dragging behind.
The market for web services will continue to bubble for a while. Amazon may hold onto its largest share or it may not. It’s basically a zero sum game of perfect information. There is a solution and it probably won’t settle on a single dominant provider.
