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

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Post by facorreia » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 11:48 AM UTC

OGinparadise wrote: post #85

tytso wrote: post #41

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…

The numbers are fishy, but if they are growing by XX% (1) a year, expect MS to reach that pretty soon. Love it or hate it, getting all your tech needs from one company has its advantages (and disadvantages). 1. Azure subscriptions have risen 48 percent in the past six months, said Takeshi Numoto, Microsoft’s vice president for marketing for the server and tools division. That unit, which encompasses Azure, has posted…

The server and tools division is a big business and the fact that it's revenue is growing at 10+% for 9 quarters is impressive.

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

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Post by nivla » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 12:00 PM UTC

rbanffy wrote: post #93

nivla wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Not really. Mind explaining a bit more? If I buy a Samsung Galaxy S4 and the lock screen wouldn't let me in because of a bug in Android, Samsung is still responsible. >Vendor lock in still applies. Again, how exactly would that be, if I am say using Ubuntu and Mysql+PHP on a Azure?

And how much effort is Microsoft willing to dedicate to fix your Ubuntu/MySQL/PHP stack? It's only a single vendor solution until you introduce a second one.

>And how much effort is Microsoft willing to dedicate to fix your Ubuntu/MySQL/PHP stack?

Isn't that the same as asking how much Google is willing to fix Linux for the Android stack??

> It's only a single vendor solution until you introduce a second one.

And your solution is to tell everyone to get a VM and install and maintain everything from scratch? Yeah that will definetly work, which is why the internet is secure with up-to-date Ubuntu stacks from all the daily "sudo apt-get update" keystrokes. /s

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

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Post by junto » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 12:18 PM UTC

quaffapint wrote: post #97

I LOVE Visual Studio and working in C# / Asp.Net MVC. I do it full time at work, and now writing my SaaS in it which I plan to host on Azure (though, I wish they had an official MongoDB offering). I've always done PHP on my side stuff, partly because of the hosting issues, but now with PaaS' like Azure and Appharbor, people who enjoy the MS Stack at least have reasonable options. People bitch about MS, but without co…

Mongo in Azure VM: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/linux/common-tasks/...

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

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Post by outside1234 » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 1:40 PM UTC

rbanffy wrote: post #93

nivla wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Not really. Mind explaining a bit more? If I buy a Samsung Galaxy S4 and the lock screen wouldn't let me in because of a bug in Android, Samsung is still responsible. >Vendor lock in still applies. Again, how exactly would that be, if I am say using Ubuntu and Mysql+PHP on a Azure?

And how much effort is Microsoft willing to dedicate to fix your Ubuntu/MySQL/PHP stack? It's only a single vendor solution until you introduce a second one.

A lot actually - the node.js solution on Windows Azure is super solid and they have a core developer on the node.js project to make it so.