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| DATE | 2015-11-05 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout-NYLXS] Microsoft Linux with systemd is on the way
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/adrianbridgwater/2015/11/05/first-microsoft-loves-linux-now-microsoft-loves-red-hat/
First, Microsoft Loves Linux -- Now, Microsoft Loves Red Hat
Adrian Bridgwater
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I track enterprise software application development & data management.
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Image: openness.microsoft.com
Microsoft and Red Hat will co-locate support teams at each other’s
premises now and allegedly even break bread together at the same canteen
— Image: openness.microsoft.com
It’s no secret that Microsoft has been doing good things with open
source. Despite an obviously commercially aligned end game (Microsoft
wants to win more market share, what a surprise) the firm has ‘committed
code’ to the cause in precisely the form that an open source purist
would consider a ‘code commit’ to be.
Inevitable in a sense then that we should hear news this week of the
firm making a major play in the open source cloud market space.
Microsoft and Red Hat will now partner to deploy Red Hat solutions on
Microsoft Azure. To be clear, this means that Microsoft is offering Red
Hat Enterprise Linux as the ‘preferred choice’ for enterprise Linux
workloads on Microsoft Azure. To be even clearer, this means that
Microsoft is recommending that we use another company’s operating system
for Linux jobs on its cloud — well, any form of Windows wouldn’t work
for Linux jobs anyway, but the point is made.
Fire & Brimstone: Cats & Dogs, Red Hat & Microsoft
IDC software analyst Al Hilwa sent an email out after hearing this news
entitled Fire & Brimstone: Cats & Dogs, Red Hat & Microsoft — who’d have
thunk it? Well, lots of people actually, Microsoft has taken bold new
steps and has been on a path to partner with its fiercest rivals of past
years agues Hilwa.
“The company has embraced Linux in its Azure cloud and is doing more
in open source than ever. Still, this is a win for both companies and
for the vast set of customers they have in common. For both firms this
creates new opportunities for growth in parts of enterprise IT that have
typically been apart. Strategically, this is what is required to be a
player at scale in the cloud platform wars. For Microsoft, this is an
important move in its initiative to compete at the top tier of the cloud
wars,” said Hilwa.
As an ‘also’ to news of the alliance, both companies have said that they
are working together to address common software application development
needs when building applications on Red Hat software across private and
public clouds.
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