Beware the dazzle of Microsoft's Azure lure
Wed, Feb 25th, 2009 |
When it comes to Microsoft's Azure Services Platform, it pays to be cautious.
Microsoft has joined IBM and others in trying to build its own version of what's beginning to look like a vast, mainframe-like computing and storage system in the sky.
In the case of Azure, you - the developer - will build your applications using the familiar Visual Studio, C#, Visual Studio, and ASP.NET that you'll then deploy to Azure.
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