The Azure Marketplace can now vend commercial applications meaning that any software application built for Windows (using the VMrole) or through Visual Studio (using the worker role) theoretically can be offered through Windows Azure as well.

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This new mission is SnapLogic, a commercial software company that provides data and application integration tools for connecting Cloud data sources.

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