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Sorry, Amazon, but Microsoft Is the World's #1 Cloud Vendor

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Re: Sorry, Amazon, but Microsoft Is the World's #1 Cloud Vendor

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Post by gumby »

The bulk of Microsoft's customer base is the global "Fortune 1000". They have a cloud structure designed for those customers, and those customers are comfortable working with MS. They are also large consumers of computing so this makes sense (though TBT the article seems more like a market "research" puff piece).

However most startups aren't in that ecosystem; when you start with an empty buffer you don't have the same path dependencies that big businesses do. So the Azure/AWS/Gcs calculus is different, not always in MS's favor. Even Netflix, started by a former MS board director, is on AWS not Azure.

Re: Sorry, Amazon, but Microsoft Is the World's #1 Cloud Vendor

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Post by polskibus »

WorldMaker wrote: post #19
polskibus wrote: post #17

I found out recently that good chunk of this progress (esp. in their SaaS space) is being fueled by open source projects, for example Power BI uses D3 3.5 and angular 1.5. I hope they open source at least a part of their stack, for example the Azure Service Fabric.

Funny that you mention that: they announced the Azure Service Fabric .NET SDK recently went open source and there seems to be some intent to open source more, including possibly an open source version of the runtime: https://github.com/Azure/service-fabric

The sdk is nothing much. Open sourcing ASF is still undecided.

Re: Sorry, Amazon, but Microsoft Is the World's #1 Cloud Vendor

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Post by candiodari »

pdpi wrote: post #20
busterarm wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Our CTO keeps 'suggesting' that we build services on Azure vs AWS. They're roughly equivalent but Azure works out to be more expensive and more opaque to our team and there hasn't actually been a justification for why other than "because we use Microsoft services". A significant amount of our infrastructure is on AWS already. I imagine the more money we spend, the more goodies he gets. They already sent him a Hololen…

> They already sent him a Hololens and that's just the thing I can physically see. And company policy allows him to keep it? That's precisely the sort of reason why companies have policies on capping gift values from partners. If I were a member of the board, I'd be pissed.

In this uni of Melbourne study 95% of managers would deny their employer profit if it meant a small personal gain. The example given is $500 personal gain denying a $1 million profit for the business.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/most-people-are-willing-t...

Re: Sorry, Amazon, but Microsoft Is the World's #1 Cloud Vendor

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Post by candiodari »

mankash666 wrote: post #10
Analemma_ wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does that include Office 365 though? Because if so, that makes it an apples-to-oranges comparison.

Doesn't include Office 365

Does seem to include windows enterprise installations though.
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