Microsoft: We're not afraid of the cloud

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Microsoft Corp. this year rolled out Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 in a push to expand its presence in the corporate data center. To be successful, the company must overcome a challenging economic environment as well as tough competition from rivals Oracle Corp. and VMware, among others.

Rob Kelly, Microsoft's corporate vice president of infrastructure server marketing, sat down with the IDG News Service to discuss the adoption rate of Windows Server 2008, Microsoft's plans for cloud-based services and the recent declaration by Paul Maritz, an ex-Microsoft executive and current president and CEO of VMware, that the traditional server operating system "has all but disappeared."

What follows is an edited transcript of that interview...

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