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Subject: Microsoft Presents Windows Azure
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Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 8:00 AM

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Windows Azure Presented at PDC
When Ray Ozzie unveiled Windows Azure and the Azure Services Platform at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, he made a point of giving credit to Amazon, for its leading work with its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), before going into how he sees Microsoft taking the cloud computing concept much further in support of the company's software-plus-services strategy. In fact, along with Amazon, the competitors most mentioned along with Azure are Google and its App Engine, and Salesforce.com and its hosted enterprise applications.
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IT Management Advice from the Last Industry Downturn
Despite the charming promise of the movie "Field of Dreams," if you simply build it, they most likely won't come. It's not as fun as being the first guy to choose a new technology, but the status quo may be the best bet until the economy rebounds.
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Yahoo Allocates Some Resources to Rural America
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