With support for three of the major pillars of application development and deployment -- Oracle 11g, Microsoft SQL, and open source MySQL -- under its belt, Amazon.com appears to be anticipating a major move by the enterprise into the cloud.
eBay, which runs a gigantic data warehouse for internal business intelligence (BI) analytics, is considering taking it outside its firewall and offering it as a Web service to interested companies.
Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) hosted infrastructure service for developers will expand its choice of operating systems and databases to include Microsoft's Windows Server and SQL Server.
Video-sharing software start-up eBUS is making progress with its foray into the Asian market and, as it grows, is moving to cloud-based storage.
Amazon.com has agreed to acquire Shelfari, a social network for book lovers, for an undisclosed sum.
Amazon.com's web storage service S3 (Simple Storage Service) recently passed the one-year mark. While S3 has got many positive mentions in the press, reports from actual customers have been harder to find. At O’Reilly Media's Emerging Technology (ETech) conference in San Diego last week, SmugMug CEO Don MacAskill stepped up, giving a kiss-and-tell account of his "love affair" with S3 -- the good and the bad.
IBM is taking Amazon.com to court, alleging patent infringement.