With cloud services popping up today faster than dot-com ASPs in the 1990s, it was only a matter of time before the various formations started spinning industry-specific clouds. For example, there is a Legal Cloud for disaster recover and business continuity services. It just licensed FalconStor software to help with that task.
I realize there are many legal-specific applications related to matter management and time and billing, but there are many applications that lawyers use that are not specific to law, such as backup, content management, business intelligence, etc. For general computing needs, your options for off-the-shelf and open source software are legion. And that will be true as computing needs are satisfied by the network and go into the clouds.
To choose a cloud service, the big questions are related to what you get, when you get it, and how do you get your data off of it when you need to.
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