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3 Most Important Announcements about Microsoft's Azure Cloud

Microsoft's Ray Ozzie significantly blew past the basic Exchange, SharePoint and SQL database hosting services with the Azure announcements at PDC 2009 yesterday. The announcements also blow right past Amazon EC2 and targets Microsoft at Google, Force.com (Salesforce.com's cloud), OpSource and others offering hosting on demand, web services and bus interconnection services in the cloud. Microsoft peeled back last year's Azure onion, showing us how Microsoft wants to do much more than just offer computing platforms or hosted Microsoft products.

There were three significant parts of the announcement that most interested me. First was AppFabric, which is Microsoft Azure's way of interconnecting to services in the Azure cloud, or through the Azure cloud to other services connected to Azure.

In early 2008, OpSource made a big deal with the "get on the bus" slogan, which at the time I convinced me there wasn't a whole lot behind Opsource's "bus" push. They seemed to be using the bus more as a marketing gimmick than really demonstrating knowledge of what it takes to interconnect apps to a bus architecture.
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