sku370870 (5/9/2012)
You've spend hundreds of hours developing. A lot of your business logic is in your stored procedures and functions. You can't afford SQL Server hosting of your own. You use this service - your web site gets popular ... what's to stop someone at Amazon ripping off your code?
That's just silly. I'm sure it happens, but when you have Netflix, AirBnB, Active.com, Ericsson, The Guardian, and more up there, all of whom have code worth stealing and are popular enough services to warrant it, your fears don't make any sense.
I've written it before, and I'll write it again. Almost everything you write in code is not some IP that's worth stealing or protecting. The integration of it all with your service is what your business sells. Worrying about anything else is naive, IMHO.