The document shows a bar graph comparing the annual revenues of major technology companies from 1998 to 2008, with Microsoft having the highest revenue of $58 billion in 2008. It also lists strategies like buying more hardware, rearchitecting databases to scale out, and adding web servers. Finally, it describes a cloud platform as having a multi-tenant, stateless environment that stores large volumes of structured and unstructured data durably and supports various programming languages and third-party solutions via modular architecture.

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42. Buy more of
everything
Rearchitect
Database to
scale out
Buy BIGGER
SQL Box
Add some
Web Servers

44. $6.1B
$5.8B
$4.5B $4.7B
$4.4B
$3.6B
$1.6B $2.2B
$782M
Apple Google Oracle HP Motorola Cisco Sony Intel IBM Microsoft

46. Create
seamless experiences
that combine the magic of
with the power of the
across a world of

50. “
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51. Multi-tenant, stateless environment
Store large volumes of structured and unstructured
information in a durable storage environment
Has a modular architecture and support for SOAP REST and
,
XML. Future support may include Eclipse, Ruby, Python, PHP,
Java, and others
Supports Microsoft and third-party solutions and a rich set of
optional components, each of which can be consumed
independently
Developers use their existing skills in a familiar environment