Thanks to Werner and Ray
Wednesday, October 01, 2008 by Dave Winer.
Today Amazon announced that there would be a way to run Windows instances in EC2. For many of us, that's a big deal, it'll mean that I can deploy applications that run in the OPML Editor that use the sliding scalability of EC2. I can't wait to design apps for this environment. 
This morning I sent an email to Werner Vogels at Amazon and Ray Ozzie at Microsoft, both readers of this blog, thanking them for making this happen. I assume Microsoft gave Amazon more flexible terms for Windows licensing, which makes it more competitive with Linux. Makes my day!
I asked for this specifically on Scripting News in April.
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