links for 2010-02-25: Amazon SimpleDB; SOA and the Cloud; Dual Licensing

• Amazon SimpleDB introduces consistency options - For those that want traditional consistency/concurrency control in the database.
• When Your SOA Using Cloud is Too Distributed and Complex - But we are increasingly moving to more distributed systems.  The key is to not use synchronous calls where not required and use messaging as much as possible to decouple systems.
• Data vs Dual Licensing: Which Will Make More Money? - Good discussion of the challenges of dual licensing.