Zoho Creator Expands Google AppEngine’s Reach. Inside looking out » What You Need To Know About Amazon SimpleDB. What You Need To Know About Amazon SimpleDB December 13th, 2007 Well after being under NDA for so long, I’m glad to be able to say that Amazon SimpleDB has gone into limited beta.
Congratulations to everyone on the SDS / SimpleDB team; their several years of work on SimpleDB (formerly called SDS) is a brilliant piece of engineering. What’s cool about SimpleDB Really large data sets Really Fast Highly Available – It’s Amazon. James Governor’s Monkchips » Why IBM Should Acquire Amazon. I have written a couple of pieces recently arguing that IBM needs to rethink its attitudes to “consumer” vs enterprise, because the distinctions are blurring.
But rather than go negative all the time, I figure now is a good time to drop a post I have been considering for a while. I am not a numbers guy but I understand Amazon is not over-valued at the moment. Buying the company could be a transformative acquisition that would bring IBM new opportunities in both business process outsourcing (BPO) and grassroots development. Amazon Mechanical Turk - Welcome.