Gates Retirement Marks Beginning of New Computing Era - Cloud computing and other technology changes make a modern Gates impossible

There is an interesting article over at GigaOm which explores the reasons that no future technology entrepreneur is going to be similar to someone like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. The retirement of Bill Gates is being called the “end of an era” and is therefore something that marks the beginning of the next era of computing. The shift towards open-source computing, cloud computing and commoditization make the new world of technology such that there are unlikely to be entrepreneurs who hang in th