Microsoft has developed its own Linux: in-house software-defined networking OS
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Re: Microsoft has developed its own Linux: in-house software-defined networking OS
#2Microsoft are now moving quickly to allow users to run .NET on all platforms. How long until they decide that Windows Server is no longer worth investing in?
Or are there too many Microsoft server products earning good profits (i.e. Exchange and BizTalk), to make that switch a realistic future expectation?
I'm genuinely interested to hear people's opinions on their thoughts of the future of Microsoft and Windows Server.
Re: Microsoft has developed its own Linux: in-house software-defined networking OS
#3People forget that MS used to have it's own Unix in the 80s: Xenix. I ported a large DEC PDP Fortran codebase to run on Xenix back then - it was far too big to fit in the 640K DOS limit. Writing the Xenix device driver for the 68000 powered graphics card in the PC was fun.
Re: Microsoft has developed its own Linux: in-house software-defined networking OS
#4I'm not familiar with Mono or any of the .Net on Linux efforts, so forgive my ignorance. However, having a running .Net stack with a CLR VM and class libs is not the whole story when it comes to running Windows native server side stuff. One of the things I've discovered building spreadserve.com is that there's a lot of COM & Registry plumbing necessary to enable Windows native desktop binaries to run in a server environment. So I imagine running real .Net based servers on Linux would require something like Wine to supply ABI compatible interfaces to the registry and COM services, and lots else beside. That's a non trivial undertaking. The MS Linux described in the Register story sounds like it's dedicated to networking tasks. I'd bet there's no .Net running on it at all.
Re: Microsoft has developed its own Linux: in-house software-defined networking OS
#5I'm not familiar with Mono or any of the .Net on Linux efforts, so forgive my ignorance. However, having a running .Net stack with a CLR VM and class libs is not the whole story when it comes to running Windows native server side stuff. One of the things I've discovered building spreadserve.com is that there's a lot of COM & Registry plumbing necessary to enable Windows native desktop binaries to run in a server envi…
There is no .Net here AFAIK and if there was it's not a problem. It's software defined networking that happens to use Linux as a kernel.
As for .Net, ASP.Net 5 runs fine on Linux and OSX without any COM or registry dependencies. It is entirely platform portable and open source.
Re: Microsoft has developed its own Linux: in-house software-defined networking OS
#6now someone suing MS for patent infringement for using Linux - would make me giggle
Re: Microsoft has developed its own Linux: in-house software-defined networking OS
#7Microsoft are now moving quickly to allow users to run .NET on all platforms. How long until they decide that Windows Server is no longer worth investing in? Or are there too many Microsoft server products earning good profits (i.e. Exchange and BizTalk), to make that switch a realistic future expectation? I'm genuinely interested to hear people's opinions on their thoughts of the future of Microsoft and Windows Serv…
imho, if Active Directory/ADAM ran on Linux demand for Windows Server would drop considerably. However Windows Server is also used to deliver Citrix-style remote desktops (using App Virtualization[1]) and that would be harder to replace. Also, SQL Server and Exchange use plenty of Windows-specific OS features -- it wouldn't be impossible to port to Linux but it would be a lot of work.
[1] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/hh397409.aspx
Re: Microsoft has developed its own Linux: in-house software-defined networking OS
#8So wondering how NT kernel + Interix only would of fared.
Re: Microsoft has developed its own Linux: in-house software-defined networking OS
#9Microsoft are now moving quickly to allow users to run .NET on all platforms. How long until they decide that Windows Server is no longer worth investing in? Or are there too many Microsoft server products earning good profits (i.e. Exchange and BizTalk), to make that switch a realistic future expectation? I'm genuinely interested to hear people's opinions on their thoughts of the future of Microsoft and Windows Serv…
If you look at recent financial statements from Microsoft their server revenue is still growing at a reasonable rate.
Re: Microsoft has developed its own Linux: in-house software-defined networking OS
#10Microsoft are now moving quickly to allow users to run .NET on all platforms. How long until they decide that Windows Server is no longer worth investing in? Or are there too many Microsoft server products earning good profits (i.e. Exchange and BizTalk), to make that switch a realistic future expectation? I'm genuinely interested to hear people's opinions on their thoughts of the future of Microsoft and Windows Serv…
imho, if Active Directory/ADAM ran on Linux demand for Windows Server would drop considerably. However Windows Server is also used to deliver Citrix-style remote desktops (using App Virtualization[1]) and that would be harder to replace. Also, SQL Server and Exchange use plenty of Windows-specific OS features -- it wouldn't be impossible to port to Linux but it would be a lot of work. [1] https://technet.microsoft.co…
Add Sharepoint (Microsoft's true cash cow[1]) to that list of yours and, yep, Windows definitely isn't going away.
[1]: http://www.tannerhelland.com/4993/microsoft-money-updated-20...