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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
Which is a great strategy for disaster recovery or failover I think, considering both the cloud services are the largest and are owned by financially stable companies that have been around for a while.
"“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.
There is absolutely, positively, certifiably no way this is even close to true. Did the people are bloomberg even look at Microsoft's figures, or were they too busy counting the cash MS sent over?
"“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.
Recently I wanted to get a simple laptop for Python development and I don't know how to begin selecting the right tools for the job. I see myself having to make all sorts of evaluations I'm just too inexperienced to make. Which OS? Whats PyPy good for? Is it supported on Ubuntu? Oh I can use this command to install but I don't see an apt get example? Does that mean it won't work?
When I read about and fire up EC2 instances I feel the same way. How do I configure them? Which one is best, etc.
With Visual Studio and the Azure tooling built in a lot of decisions are just invisible to me and I sort of like it that way.
Of course I understand the benefits of open source and having a variety of options is important but I'm ok with giving up a little control and power to just get things done.
I think its the same reason we use Stripe instead of getting out own merchant account and all that rigmarole.
Isn't Heroku similar as in Heroku makes some choices for you on how to do things?
"“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.
There is a major segment of tech that build careers on brand, not skill, and thus the quality of their solutions equally bottlenecked.
"“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.
"“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.
I'm an MS dev with a little Django, Rails and PHP experience and I'm always sort of overwhelmed with the choices I have non-ms environments. Recently I wanted to get a simple laptop for Python development and I don't know how to begin selecting the right tools for the job. I see myself having to make all sorts of evaluations I'm just too inexperienced to make. Which OS? Whats PyPy good for? Is it supported on Ubuntu?…
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 Mono.
Being able to make the best choices for a project is a valuable skill.
Knowing the price of Azure that should mean they have roughly pulls out calculator and hits some keys .. 12 customers.
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.
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.