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October 2009 - Posts

• Customer Choice : Big database or available database?

  The big cloud news of the day is Amazon’s announcement of Amazon RDS , a MySQL database in the cloud.  There will be some interesting commentary over the next few days, particularly the timing of the announcement so close to Microsoft’s PDC, which Read More... Posted 27 October 2009 13:57 by simon.munro | 0 Comments Filed under: Azure, Cloud, cloud computing, Amazon EC2, SQL Azure, Amazon RDS

• Look! Larry Ellison Has Groupies!

  You have to watch this video (captured by TechPulse360 ) of Larry Ellison’s latest rant about how the cloud is just “nonsense and water vapour”.  It is done in an interview style where someone has given him a microphone in front of a crowd and he Read More... Posted 02 October 2009 13:46 by simon.munro | 1 Comments Filed under: Cloud, cloud computing, Rant

• 10 Lock-Ins That I Hate More Than Vendor Lock-In

  .NET developers are often baited for their choice of technology stack by the loud and deriding group of Microsoft haters. This happened to me recently with respect to Azure where it was commented that no startup (I don’t know what is so special about Read More... Posted 02 October 2009 06:47 by simon.munro | 9 Comments