Microsoft, The Cloud and Local Government
In November of 2009, Microsoft launched a contest for developers to build on a beta of Microsoft’s cloud platform, Azure. Last month the winners were announced and they were heavy on Web maps. Miami’s 311 System, a citizen info and reporting tool, won with iLink GIS Framework , a data sharing solution, as a runner up.
Steve Read, Microsoft’s National Azure Lead for State and Local Government, “said at the end of the day, the eye candy (map-heavy) apps were the ones that got the most attention, but he also believed there is a huge potential for enterprise applications to help deliver real savings and efficiencies.”
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/10 at 08:11 AM |
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