Doug Keely - Inspiring journey of Earnest Shackleton and his mastery of leadership of his crew and the situation dire circumstances, like now to keep a strong business focus in tough economic circumstances.

Martha Bejar, Corporate VP, Communications Sector

Hosting Summit is Martha's favorite event and articulated that Microsoft's ability to partner and grow our business with our Hosting providers is crucial to our mutual success.

Hosting over the next 10 years with 20% growth in addition to the existing 100 Million unmanaged mailboxes that can be captured and moved into hosting.

Recent announcements in Software plus Services make the approach a choice between partnership, head-to-head competition and creative ideas about working together

Communications Sector will be partners’ voice into Microsoft, we will continue to invest in the channel and we will be successful!

John Zanni, GM, WW Software Plus Services Industry, Communications Sector

Great opportunity for business as in hosting 20% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over the next 4 years, hosting continues to grow!

Mass, dedicated and shared hosting margins are starting to shrink but still are growing between 9% and 10% year-over-year. However, managed hosting is growing at a rate upwards of 20% for better profitability!

By the end of 2009, 76% of all US companies will have at least one hosted SaaS application

The options customers will have to choose from will be to self host, have a partner host or have Microsoft host the solution, we are agnostic about the delivery model

In terms of hosting channel enablement, our releases such as the Hyper-V licensing whitepaper, SQL 2008 and Hyper-V fast start program, web hosting sales kit and growing MSPP hosting community makes our commitment to the sales channel better than ever!

Investments in cross platform enablement on Windows is key to our solutions (PHP, Ruby On Rails, Java) as well as leveraging the System Center Suite Enterprise and the latest release of the Dynamic Data Center Tool Kit

Great video and demo by Hyder Ali on building and enabling a managed offering leveraging Hyper-V and Server Management Suite Enterprise (SMSE)!

Eddie Amos, GM, Developer Platform and Tools

Great hosting interaction with the Developers tools team and Hosting

Tough economic conditions force lower IT spending but software acquisition have been deferred, not cut and software plus services is a way to deliver rich application services at a lower cost

$16.2B today of cloud computing increasing to $42B by 2012 according to IDC, incredible but how will this take place, what kind of cloud market will be leveraged? Software as a service? App as a service? Software platform as a service? Virtual infrastructure as a service? Physical infrastructure as a service?

Key investments in developing PHP apps with Expressions web, Visual Studio working with Hyper-V images and BizSpark and DreamSpark free developer tools are examples of how we would look to hosters to deploy and support these applications

Bill Hilf, GM, Windows Server Marketing & Platform Strategy

Windows Server platform core to Microsoft’s success

Cross platform support is very important, such as working with PHP support in IIS, SQL PHP driver, Expressions web for PHP Dev - Hosters should love this, especially shared!

New initiative "Everything in Between" support for ASP.NET and PHP - Great focus!

-Chris Samson, senior hosting technology specialist, Microsoft