Good article in the German online magazine www.spiegel-online.de about Cloud Computing in Germany.
Sorry, no English version available. Main points:
- No clear defintion of the term CC make this trend hard to catch for most users/companies
- Most smaller companies worry about control of their data. This is the main difference to the US, as legal regulations especially for private data are significant higher in the European Community.
- About 90 % see CC not as an proven technology, they prefer to wait for 1 or 2 years and not to act as early adaptors.
This is somehow true, as I know from several of my customers that they prefer the role of a "fast-follower", as this is a good balance for them of being somehow state-of-the-art and not at the (expensive) b(leading) edge.