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Amazon Beefs Up Its Cloud Ahead of MS Announcement 89

Posted by kdawson on Friday October 24, 2008 @09:40AM from the hey-you-get-offa-my dept.

Amazon has announced several major improvements to its EC2 service for cloud computing. The service is now in production (no longer beta); it offers a service-level agreement; and Windows and SQL Server are available in beta form. ZDNet points out that all this news is intended to take some wind out of Microsoft's sails as MS is expected to introduce its own cloud services next week at its Professional Developers Conference.

Comment Re:Can you legally sell them (Score 1) 367

by loosebra on Monday September 10, 2007 @07:27AM (#20536693) Attached to: Police Busted When Tracking Device Found On Car

I challenge you to find a train that goes faster than 60 mph in the South Island of New Zealand ...

Journal Journal: The Daylight Saving Time redefinition is a major PITA 8

Journal by Degrees on Monday March 05, 2007 @04:42PM

Gad! I'd love to bill Congress for the time I'm wasting on this turkey. We'd be up in the several thousand dollars now, and climbing.

So the nice thing for me is that Novell listened to their customers in Indiana year before last, and extended the GroupWise schema to include the particulars of DST start and end dates. If your GroupWise is modern, Novell has a tool that can tell which of your appointments are fouled up (if any), and it can adjust them.

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