Someone call a Weatherman, the Clouds have shifted
In a move that I think is great from feature perspective, the SQL Server Data Services team has made important changes to the SQL Data Services feature. Essentially, the team is moving away from the name\value pair implementation that was released with CTP 1 and is moving to a full relational database model. You can read the announcement on the SDS blog HERE.
I am VERY excited at this announcement and I think this opens up SQL Data Services to being utilized for a whole host of applications without changing your applications. That being said there is going to be a limited set of functionality that you will be able to do in the cloud, but your core SQL Server functionality is going to be there. It will be very interesting to see how this evolves as more information comes out at MIX.
Enjoy!