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Please everyone, not all at once.
I like how HN is so blatantly anti-Microsoft, but Reddit is overly Microsoft supportive. Which hipsters do I believe in?!
Knowing the price of Azure that should mean they have roughly pulls out calculator and hits some keys .. 12 customers.
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…
Edit: Also, really? You don't think there's any benefit to integration? That's like Microsoft's whole deal - make their stuff work well with their other stuff. Sure, it creates lock-in, but it's also a feature users want. I want my various programs to easily work with each other in obvious ways, and not have to worry about compatibility issues.
Who here on HN is running any portion of their startup or established Internet business on Azure?
On the VM side, they're still catching up, I think. For instance, you can't get multiple IPs routing to a single VM, so if you have multiple SSL sites, you'll need multiple servers in general. (SNI isn't available on IE for XP which is a deal breaker for many people.)
But that's probably a reflection more of the mindset of people wanting dedicated servers and thinking "cloud VM" is the same thing, instead of people trying to build distributed applications.
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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 benchma…
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How are the free hours from BizSpark handled? ( http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/offers/ms-azr-0012p ) Are those treated as sales?
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?
> 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
That is a really vague statement that could mean all sorts of things (Office 365, Windows Server licensees, etc).
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…
...but I honestly agree with the sentiment. I will pay money to not deal with sysadmin headaches, which is something you get a lot of using a hodgepodge of technologies.