Amazon brings Windows to the cloud; and the economy against the trade show

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Oct 15, 20081 min

Amazon went to the clouds early on, and now, the company is moving to offer Windows virtual machines in its elastic cloud. And VMworld just ended with what appeared to be yet another successful virtualization trade show for VMware. But in these economic times, are there too many shows taking place for people to attend? Are there too many shows for people to sponsor? Two shows that were supposed to take place in