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Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azure than Windows Server

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Re: Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azure than Windows Server

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Post by mr_toad »

I see a lot of government shops picking Azure because nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft.

But once they open up to the cloud I see a lot of people installing stuff like Shiney servers, Jupytr notebooks and other open source software on Linux servers that would never have been a starter in an enterprise environment.

Re: Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azure than Windows Server

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Post by bhouston »

mr_toad wrote: post #2

I see a lot of government shops picking Azure because nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft. But once they open up to the cloud I see a lot of people installing stuff like Shiney servers, Jupytr notebooks and other open source software on Linux servers that would never have been a starter in an enterprise environment.

The government department standardizes on Azure but all the young devs push for Linux servers so all their shiny toys work great.

Windows is truly dead on the cloud and has been for a decade. The only thing people use it for is self hosted exchange, and file servers and active domains - legacy stuff.

Re: Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azure than Windows Server

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Post by m0zg »

This is great, IMO. The sooner MS abandons Windows on Azure the better for everybody. You could argue that "monoculture" is not good, but, TBH, from a purely pragmatic standpoint, I struggle to name a single use case where I'd _not_ choose Linux over anything else when the use case is not desktop-oriented (cloud, edge, embedded).

Re: Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azure than Windows Server

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Post by steve19 »

m0zg wrote: post #5

This is great, IMO. The sooner MS abandons Windows on Azure the better for everybody. You could argue that "monoculture" is not good, but, TBH, from a purely pragmatic standpoint, I struggle to name a single use case where I'd _not_ choose Linux over anything else when the use case is not desktop-oriented (cloud, edge, embedded).

I guess when you want to run software than only runs on Windows, such as IIS.

You won't find them here, but there are plenty of Windows-only IT service providers out there. It seems crazy that any system administrator, or programmer, in 2019 would only have any interest in Windows, but they exist and there are a lot of them out there.

Re: Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azure than Windows Server

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Post by closeparen »

bhouston wrote: post #3
mr_toad wrote: post #2

I see a lot of government shops picking Azure because nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft. But once they open up to the cloud I see a lot of people installing stuff like Shiney servers, Jupytr notebooks and other open source software on Linux servers that would never have been a starter in an enterprise environment.

The government department standardizes on Azure but all the young devs push for Linux servers so all their shiny toys work great. Windows is truly dead on the cloud and has been for a decade. The only thing people use it for is self hosted exchange, and file servers and active domains - legacy stuff.

There is an entire parallel community of business IT, basically unknown and unintelligible to the Silicon Valley community, where the Microsoft server-side stack is as obvious a choice as Linux is in our world. You may even have some of it in your company. It's really amusing (and dysfunctional) when our projects require "Eng" and "Corp IT" to cooperate. We're both ostensibly computer professionals who select, write, and operate production services, yet to each side the other may as well be from Mars.
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