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Making sense of Microsoft's Azure

 

Published 11/6/2008 at Latest from Computerworld

Fitting between Google's and Amazon.com's current offerings, it represents a big step toward moving applications off the desktop and out an organization's own data center. Whether it will have traction with corporate IT developers remains to be seen. (link)

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