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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