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News Story Amazon: New, Improved Cloud, Now With MySQL

DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Tue, 10/27/2009 - 09:08

At the risk of coming off like TV's "Mad Men," Amazon Web Services really are New and Improved.

The company today announced the addition of Amazon Relational Database Service, giving users of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) access to a virtual instance of MySQL.

That's the New part.

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News Story Wait, Windows 7 Costs How Much?

DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Thu, 10/22/2009 - 07:48

With the price of Windows 7 topping out at US$320, Microsoft will be handing shoppers less cash at the end of its "I'm a PC" commercials.

Price advantages of Windows-laptops over those from Apple evaporated further today as Microsoft's latest operating system hit store shelves and OEM factories.

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