It is more than a year ago that we first blogged about System Center Online Services. Larry Orecklin, at the time General Manager for the Windows Enterprise and Management Division at Microsoft, first informed partners of the upcoming Online Services at the System Center Partner Airlift in January of 2007.
At the time, Larry showed his vision of what probably now is know as the "Software + Services" initiative within Microsoft. The System Center Online Services would be a set of services on the internet. The services would extra value to current and new customers by adding functionality from "the cloud" in two flavours; (A) finished services and (B) attached services. The first one would bring products that are not available as standalone products and the second one would bring products complimentary to the full products which companies run within their infrastructures.
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