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TechCrunch reports Source: Google To Launch BigTable As Web Service. Now, this is just a rumor, but:according to the article:

Google may be releasing BigTable, its internal database system, as a web service to compete with Amazon SimpleDB, according to a source with knowledge of the launch.

For the record, BigTable is Google's "compressed, high performance, and proprietary database system" (per Wikipedia). And Amazon's SimpleDB should sound familiar: I've written about it before, here Amazon SimpleDB and here More about Amazon's SimpleDB....

So--if true--this could be very good news for anyone who wants enterprise (and I mean BIG ENTERPRISE) database systems, for minimal up-front investment, from two of the very biggest Internet database businesses.