Tech Industry Microsoft and FathomDB target 'relational' clouds Two seemingly unconnected pieces of news signal an interesting market test: can standard relational-database software be effectively delivered from the cloud? There were two very interesting pieces of news to come out in the last week related to the availability of relational databases in the cloud. One involved a start-up you have al
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