Correct. Amazon understand this dynamic and how to play the game. They can take something like Oracle's DB, turn it into a service, and manage it end to end for

Correct. Amazon understand this dynamic and how to play the game. They can take something like Oracle's DB, turn it into a service, and manage it end to end for the customer, and even provide tools to do the migration. This is a straight attack on Oracle. Once in the AWS ecosystem, it becomes easy to follow the logic described in the CIO using MS products in the article. One real risk is lock in. Larry has been harping on this. The counterpoint, of course, is if you are running on the best platform, lock-in is not a problem because you don't want to switch.