Microsoft and Red Hat partner

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Post by kenrick95 » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 1:40 PM UTC

Microsoft and Red Hat partner
blogs.microsoft.com

Re: Microsoft and Red Hat partner

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Post by gopowerranger » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 2:03 PM UTC

Who forced this? It's way too early for me to make this comment, I think, but "Dinosaur's mating?". Square peg force fitting into round hole?

Re: Microsoft and Red Hat partner

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Post by yxhuvud » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 2:11 PM UTC

Now that is a headline that would have raised a few eyebrows 15 years ago.

Re: Microsoft and Red Hat partner

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Post by frik » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 2:14 PM UTC

yxhuvud wrote: post #3

Now that is a headline that would have raised a few eyebrows 15 years ago.

In 2006 we had a similar headline.

Microsoft partnered with Novell (SuSE Linux), and there was no happy end for one of them (Novell is no more; SuSE Linux once a major distribution next to RedHat is a shadow of its former self). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell#Agreement_with_Microsof...

Re: Microsoft and Red Hat partner

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 2:15 PM UTC

yxhuvud wrote: post #3

Now that is a headline that would have raised a few eyebrows 15 years ago.

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Re: Microsoft and Red Hat partner

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Post by cdnsteve » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 2:24 PM UTC

A cloud provider that offers Linux and Windows, this is cutting edge.

Re: Microsoft and Red Hat partner

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Post by af3 » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 2:24 PM UTC

> providing access to .NET technologies across Red Hat offerings, including OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux

That can be huge! Imagine RH coming with .NET preinstalled. Next time I need to write a shell script, I might pick C#...

Re: Microsoft and Red Hat partner

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Post by thebouv » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 2:31 PM UTC

I'm not fooling myself into seeing this as anything but a "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" setup. RedHat is getting a ton out of this, and so is Microsoft.

Who's the main target for Azure? Enterprise companies who trust Microsoft implicitly. When an exec comes to the head of IT and says "we need to be on the cloud! I read about it!", Azure eases the transition by being able to go to vendor you've already been using for a dozen years.

RedHat's core audience is enterprise as well. RHEL is the de facto standard for that level of infrastructure due to the support you can get versus any of the distributions that are equally as good, but minus the support contracts.

So, they're helping each other out and that's good in my humble opinion.

Microsoft's new direction under their new CEO is one surprise after another. I've only tinkered with Azure so far but makes me want to pay MS more attention than I would have a couple years ago.

Re: Microsoft and Red Hat partner

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Post by bitmapbrother » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 2:33 PM UTC

Awesome. I can't wait to receive my Redhat voucher.

Re: Microsoft and Red Hat partner

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Post by bad_user » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 2:34 PM UTC

frik wrote: post #4

yxhuvud wrote: post #3

Now that is a headline that would have raised a few eyebrows 15 years ago.

In 2006 we had a similar headline. Microsoft partnered with Novell (SuSE Linux), and there was no happy end for one of them (Novell is no more; SuSE Linux once a major distribution next to RedHat is a shadow of its former self). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell#Agreement_with_Microsof...

I remember that one. Many people were pissed off because that partnership included a patents agreement. This was because in the eyes of many, this meant an acknowledgement from Novell that Microsoft was in the right to claim patents infringement of Linux and SuSE Linux was then advertised as the safe distribution. Talk about a sure way to piss off your community.