Amazon's Growing Cloud and Web Services Business Won't Move Stock Much

Trefis submits: Salesforce.com (CRM) is a fast growing player in the cloud computing market that offers products such as cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) software, Force.com, AppExchange and Database.com.

Jeffrey M. Kaplan submits: As the new year and decade get underway, here are a few of the areas of the cloud computing market which I think will be important competitive battlefields for established and emerging players:

Trefis submits: Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) today will announce the market release of Office 365, a web-based productivity software product, in an event in New York. [1] Microsoft launched the beta version of Office 365 in the autumn of 2010, and the market release represents a major product release from Microsoft and a symbolic move away from the traditional way of selling software to cloud computing.

ByRiley Wilkins:This article will primarily concern itself with the overvaluation of Salesforce.com.

David Oldenburg submits:Over the weekend on the Online Money Show, a radio show featuring Seeking Alpha contributors and their views on key market events, I interviewed Galileo Russell about cloud computing and the author's recent article entitled 'Blue Skies Ahead for Cloud Security Powerhouse Websense'.

Trefis submits: In addition to its book and general merchandise divisions, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) provides cloud-based computing and data storage services to corporate customers.

Trefis submits: We expect Salesforce.com (CRM) to continue to increase its share in the Customer Relationship Software (CRM) market, such that it surpasses its competitors SAP (SAP), Oracle (ORCL) and Microsoft (MSFT) and becomes the

Trefis submits: Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), which makes money through contextual search advertising, has seen its ad revenue per 1,000 searches (RPS) fluctuate in recent years. Our estimates have indicated that Yahoo’s RPS grew until 2008 and has since declined due to the weak ad market.