Wal-Mart is running scared
The WSJ reports today that Wal-Mart is "is telling some technology companies that if they want its business, they can't run applications for the retailer Amazon.com's 26% leading cloud-computing service, Amazon Web Services, several tech companies say."
Wal-Mart is framing it as a way to protect it's 'sensitive data' but that's a thin excuse for something that sounds like a clear anti-trust cast. It's also a mistake. In a few years, as Amazon consolidates and grows, it can turn the tables and tell its supplies that they need to use AWS or get out.
Either way, the spat hurts business and competition.
