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Foreword

The move to the cloud has become a seemingly overwhelming direction in which companies and technologists are finding themselves driven in the ongoing effort to achieve better economies of scale and a faster pace of business innovation in using enterprise technology.

This has been clearly illustrated by the rapid rise and adoption of Software as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service, but has been unusually light or limited for the application software infrastructure—enterprise-scale databases and enterprise-scale middleware—itself. This has not been for the lack of trying, but it simply represents a really hard problem that is only ...

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