Yesterday at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference 2009, we announced the business and partner model for the Windows Azure platform including service level agreements and support programs.

Here are few highlights from the announcement.

• Commercial availability at Professional Developers Conference 2009 in November’09.
• SQL Azure will be available later this summer as a cloud-based relational database platform built on SQL Server.
• Free until the release in November. Now is the time to go check out the free CTP.

Read the full post on Raj Ramabadran’s blog at http://rajramabadran.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/azure-commercial-availability-confirmed-business-model-announced-and-more/