Partner Otaku

Today we announced pricing for Azure.  Lot’s of press on this already, but I wanted to provide a new link to hit for more information specifically for partners about Azure.

Azure Partner Quickstart Portal

If you’re not familiar with ARCast.TV on Channel9, it’s a series of interviews with influential architects providing perspective and architectural insight.  This week topic is Windows Azure with David Chappell.  David recently updated his white paper, “Introducing the  Azure Services Platform”.

New CloudApp() is a US-based developer challenge for .NET & PHP developers creating cloud applications or services on the Azure™ Services Platform. There are 3 contest categories with grand prizes of a $5000 VISA gift card for .NET and PHP, and $2500 for the Community winner. Have your application judged by industry leaders Om Malik and Michael Cote and share your cloud coding skills with other developers. Grand Prize Winners will be announced at Structure 09 and featured on azure.com.

Get More Information:  http://www.newcloudapp.com/

Support for PHP on the Azure Services Platform was announced at MIX09.  I’ve added a few of the highlights below.

• FastCGI: allows developers to deploy and run web applications written with 3rd party programming languages such as PHP.
• NET Full Trust: provides developers with a level of flexibility in Windows Azure that removes limitations on .NET Libraries which require full trust (including .NET Services) .
• Geolocation: provides developers with the ability to specify a location for their applications and data to build responsive services with lower network latency as well as the capability to meet location-based regulatory and legal requirements.

To read more please follow these links:

WIndows Azure Blog

Mary Jo Foley