Amazon Takes on Oracle and IBM With SimpleDB  —  Companies can now go ahead and fire their expensive database administrators—those engineers who keep the Oracle or IBM databases humming.  Amazon has just added an enterprise-class database called SimpleDB to its suite of cloud-based IT infrastructure …

Source:   TechCrunch

Author:   Erick Schonfeld

Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/14/amazon-takes-on…