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Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion, Challenging Amazon

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

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Post by tytso »

Comparing against Amazon's total cloud sales may be comparing apples and orange. To quote from the article:

"Microsoft’s $1 billion sales figure includes Azure, as well as software provided to partners to create related Windows cloud services, Anderson said in an interview."

What software is included "to create related Windows cloud services", and is that the only use for said softare? i.e., are they including things like MS Visual Studio? And how much of MSDN subscription fees included in the $1 billion dollar figure, I wonder?

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

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Post by avenger123 »

jf22 wrote: post #36
bsg75 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Knowing how to find the answers to such question is an element of being an expert - not knowing all the answers, but knowing how to find them. Djanjo, Python, Rails, and PHP can run find in a Windows environment, but the community is rooted Linux (and OSX to some degree), thus the amount of quality resources available for your research is greater. Same goes for .NET - more Windows information is available compared to…

Totally agree with you however what I'm finding to be the most difficult is a lot of getting started resources tend to be using different nuances of the Python programming environment. My goal is to setup an environment closest to what I'd see in the field but its really hard to determine what that means. In the ms world when you bounce jobs getting up and running usually involves using the same three programs you al…

This comes down to what your goals are.

If you want to do Django, just use this:

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/django

It might not be the latest, the best web server, etc. but it will get you going.. Give it a few weeks and you'll be better able to answer your own questions.

At this point, starting is the best approach.

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

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Post by untog »

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.

What most people on HN miss (being the developers we are) is that having one relationship with a vendor is hugely preferable for non-development reasons. Billing (simpler, also savings in bundling), unified support (why doesn't x work with y!) and so on mean that going to a vendor isn't just the lazy choice it looks like.

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

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Post by raarky »

mrtrombone wrote: post #22
mladenkovacevic wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft's wet dream customer.

Yes but an amazingly common one. If I look at the NZ city I live in (pop ~80k) both Tertiary institutes, City Council, Regional Council, primary Health organization etc are all very much happy Microsoft shops.

NZ seems to have a pretty large and active MS developer scene.

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

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Post by iamleppert »

Love this quote:

“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 solution?”

...

"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM". "I'm a lazy C-level exec." "I love having all my eggs in one basket." "I just write a check, and all my problems are solved." "Money buys happiness."

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

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Post by niggler »

blantonl wrote: post #43

Who here on HN is running any portion of their startup or established Internet business on Azure?

I played around with Azure and Heroku for node.js hosting and found that Azure wasn't as painful to setup and didn't trip up as often as Heroku (though my statement should be read as more of a criticism of Heroku than an endorsement of Azure)

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

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Post by eli »

blantonl wrote: post #43

Who here on HN is running any portion of their startup or established Internet business on Azure?

I'm hosting some (really) non-critical stuff on a Ubuntu image on it.

It seems fine. The manager interface is actually pretty good IMHO, but Linode is really cheap and running Linux on Azure is (I think) still a "beta" feature. I get the hours free though BizSpark. I was thinking of setting it up as a slave/mirror of our main sites for use as a fallover backup. It's been pretty reliable but I haven't done any benchmarks or really tested it in any way.

If I had need or inclination to use the Microsoft stack, though, it would definitely be a serious contender.

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