Quoting a ZDNet article: «If there were any lingering doubts about whether Amazon Web Services were enterprise ready they dissolved this week once IBM became a partner. And now that Amazon and IBM have teamed up a picture of multiple computing clouds is emerging. Amazon Web Services teamed up with IBM to provide pay-as-you-go access to Big Blue’s database servers, Lotus and Websphere middleware running on Novell SUSE Linux. Those applications will run on Amazon’s EC2. While much of the details have been covered what’s notable is the vision. IBM’s cloud will connect to Amazon’s and licenses will also carry over. To the enterprise IBM’s endorsement makes Amazon an official member of the corporate cloud club.»

It’s cloud related interesting reading, but things will not be so easy for IBM and friends…