Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion, Challenging Amazon • Hacker News Board

Re: Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion, Challenging Amazon

#11

Post by sendob » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 9:01 PM UTC

"“The biggest advantage I have with Microsoft is I don’t have to go to any other vendor for any solution -- I can go to one partner for all of my operating systems, all of my development environment and all of my infrastructure tools,” he said. “Why would I waste time looking at another third-party."

^Interesting viewpoint.

Re: Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion, Challenging Amazon

#12

Post by ianstallings » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 9:03 PM UTC

Knowing the price of Azure that should mean they have roughly pulls out calculator and hits some keys.. 12 customers.

Re: Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion, Challenging Amazon

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Post by mladenkovacevic » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 9:03 PM UTC

sendob wrote: post #11

"“The biggest advantage I have with Microsoft is I don’t have to go to any other vendor for any solution -- I can go to one partner for all of my operating systems, all of my development environment and all of my infrastructure tools,” he said. “Why would I waste time looking at another third-party." ^Interesting viewpoint.

Microsoft's wet dream customer.

Re: Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion, Challenging Amazon

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Post by marshray » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 9:04 PM UTC

gravitronic wrote: post #9

This seems highly unlikely considering they don't remember to update the azure SSL certificate two years in a row. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/02/25/windo...

It's not "the azure SSL certificate", it's more that there are a great many of them being used internally between many systems.

Re: Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion, Challenging Amazon

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Post by curiousDog » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 9:06 PM UTC

Could definitely be true if revenue from internal customers (Office 365, Hotmail, Xbox etc) is included.

Re: Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion, Challenging Amazon

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Post by tbatterii » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 9:06 PM UTC

anyone know what app engine sales are? I don't recall ever seeing it mentioned in investor relations stuff makes me wonder why or if/when they will kill it.

Re: Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion, Challenging Amazon

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Post by conjugate » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 9:09 PM UTC

Microsoft Azure will not challenge Amazon, but will become huge/larger simply because almost all enterprise companies will only consider Microsoft and IBM products.

Re: Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion, Challenging Amazon

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Post by conjugate » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 9:09 PM UTC

Microsoft Azure will not challenge Amazon, but will become huge/larger simply because almost all enterprise companies will only consider Microsoft and IBM products.

Re: Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion, Challenging Amazon

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Post by barredo » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 9:09 PM UTC

Are Apple iCloud services still hosted with Azure tech? http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/0051209/apples-iclo...

Because that alone could be a large portion of that $1B

Re: Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion, Challenging Amazon

#20

Post by cadetzero » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 9:13 PM UTC

>"They haven’t excited the front-line developers -- the ones who made Amazon who they are," he said. "Those will be hard to influence."

That may be true, but at the end of the day, startups aren't generating multi-millions/billions to spend on large server deployments.