What content will be listed in the Windows Azure Marketplace?
The Windows Azure Marketplace will include listings of building block components, training, services, premium data sets and finished services/applications. ‘Building block’ components and services are designed to be incorporated by other developers into their Windows Azure platform applications (e.g. a billing engine that developers can use to quickly add paid subscriptions to their web application). Other examples include – but are not limited to – developer tools, administrative tools, components and plugins, and service templates. The DataMarket section of Windows Azure Marketplace will include data, imagery, and real-time web services from leading commercial data providers and authoritative public data sources. Customers will have access to datasets such as demographic, environmental, financial, retail, weather and sports. Developers can leverage data as a service to embed this data into their applications through tools like Visual Studio and 3rd party SDKs. Information workers can
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- How can customers (developers and information workers) benefit from the DataMarket section of the Windows Azure Marketplace?
- What applications, content providers and datasets will be available on the Windows Azure marketplace at launch?
- What is the business model for Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket?
