Open source and the cloud - the quick and the dead

"Savio makes a good case based on the recent launch of AWS’s Relational Database Service, based on MySQL, and Microsoft’s support for MySQL and Tomcat on Azure:

"“When Amazon decided to offer MySQL via Amazon RDS, they did so without purchasing MySQL support from Sun. I’ve confirmed that Microsoft Azure is supporting MySQL on Azure without paying Sun for a MySQL Enterprise subscription.”

"Clearly there is a threat to open source vendors from cloud-based services. Meanwhile I have previous argued that the cloud and open source are complementary. Can both positions be valid?"

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