
Yawn...
I'm sorry but I do have to flame El Reg on this story.
Just a quick Google of the search terms Amazon EC2 IBM
http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2009/04/22/amazon-ec2-running-ibm-now-available/
Where DB2 and Informix have been on the cloud since 2009, what's really new with Oracle joining the fray?
Here's the complete list of relational databases:
http://aws.amazon.com/running_databases/#relational
and still here's a PR piece from 2008 about Oracle on EC2
http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/server-farm/oracle-licensing-products-for-amazon-ec2-cloud-environments/
So I have to ask... what's really new?