Even in Germany, which is suffering somewhat under the European cloud, but is sort of the break in that cloud, there is a corporate earnings growth rate at close to 10% for the year.
Meet these guys and their cloud-sent adversary on video after the break, and check out the read link for their ongoing liveblog of the launch -- naturally courtesy of some iPhone 3.0 tethering.
Instinctively it would seem that cloud computing technology would be a critical weapon to break down the line of business silos that exist in retail banks.