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Posted by rod@drury.net.nz in Old-blog-archives at 10:57 am on Tuesday, 9 November 2004
Both Amazon and Google are moving clearly into the development/ecommerce space with a very different model from Microsoft.
The Amazon Simple Queue Service offers state management for distributed applications. There are some smart people reading the tea leaves and have worked out they have the right to play in this new distributed world.
What will Microsoft’s response be. A free service from MSDN?
What’s an example of where this would be useful? Well that’s the million dollar question.
What the service provides is a central point of control for decoupled applications, so any sort of peer to peer asynchronous communications service.
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