Microsoft Azure: Definitely Not Too Little, But is it Too Late?

Derrick Harris
Sunday, November 22, 2009
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Last week, I wrote off Microsoft as a real cloud-computing competitor, questioning why it remains on the sidelines while cloud leaders Amazon Web Services and Rackspace continue rolling out feature after feature. This week at its Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft made me eat my words … kind of. The latest details about Microsoft Azure fill in the information that's been outlined over the last year, and paint a picture of a compelling cloud offering clearly distinct from anything else on the market. But Azure won’t be publicly available until Jan. 1, and a month and a half is a long time in the world of cloud computing. […]

Question of the Week

What are your thoughts on the prospects for Microsoft Azure?

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rickbullotta

2009/11/24 at 07:23

I think what we've been provided with in beta form [with Azure] is more than adequate to build a very compelling set of applications, and we're seriously considering doing just that. We were (are) very close to leveraging a LAMP/Adobe stack, but last week really complicated that decision!

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