Original Article by: David Linthicum

Not sure too many people noticed, but Google, Microsoft, EMC, and Salesforce.com took on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization and Procurement to talk about the upsides and the downsides of cloud computing. The federal CIO, Vivek Kundra, who has been an advocate of cloud computing for use within the government, joined them as well.

There are a few interesting things about this situation. First, something like cloud computing has the attention of government leaders. Second, does this attention translate into good things, or bad things?