Overheard in the tech blogosphere:

Red Dog

Nov 20 2008   2:32PM GMT

Overheard: Azure grew out of Red Dog - gotta love those code names



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Microsoft, Azure, Red Dog
maryjofoley.jpg The goal of Azure is to provide developers who want to write applications that run partially and/or entirely in a remote datacenter with a platform and set of tools.

Mary Jo Foley,  Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexed

Ok. So Azure isn’t all that new. It’s just Red Dog with a new name?