News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Microsoft has developed its own Linux: in-house software-defined networking OS. Parent comment

Re:Microsoft has developed its own Linux: in-house software-... by signal11 on Friday September 18, 2015 @05:44AM (#10238266)
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

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Microsoft has developed its own Linux: in-house software-... by zamalek on Friday September 18, 2015 @05:52AM (#10238285)
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...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Microsoft has developed its own Linux: in-house software-... by buffoon on Friday September 18, 2015 @06:05AM (#10238306)
AD, Sharepoint, Office 365 is already canned in Azure/O365.

You won't be buying a Windows Server license to run them any more and it's feasible that they may even not run on Windows at some point in the future. Office's server portion and Sharepoint is all .Net so expect them to move it to ASP.Net 5 at some point.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Microsoft has developed its own Linux: in-house software-... by frik on Friday September 18, 2015 @01:42PM (#10240730)
SharePoint is a cash cow, but its implementation is such an old mess with lots of parts stayed unchanged since v2003. Nowadays Microsoft India is mainly working on it. The most polished version was v2007, since then little has changed.

SharePoint is basically the server part of Office. It's a web CMS, a web based Office (viewer), with AD account login support. I wonder why there is no open source SharePoint alternative e.g. coded in PHP.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Microsoft has developed its own Linux: in-house software-... by Zach_the_Lizard on Friday September 18, 2015 @04:26PM (#10241854)
>I wonder why there is no open source SharePoint alternative e.g. coded in PHP.

I think it's because SharePoint's strengths lie mainly in integration with Office and other Microsoft products. Lists, workflows, wikis, etc. in SharePoint aren't great. Basically everything it does can be done in a better way with another tool.

However, due to AD integration, Office integration, the ease of connecting to MS SQL Server, the product can do things that would be difficult to do in any third party product. You can upload Word documents, run a workflow on them, have users edit list data directly in Office products, bulk edit lists in Excel, and use InfoPath forms (basically dead now though from what I recall -- thankfully I no longer have to work with SharePoint).

I think SharePoint won't ever have a competitor that can offer all of its integration.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Microsoft has developed its own Linux: in-house software-... by merb on Friday September 18, 2015 @06:30AM (#10238367)
Actually Active Directory already ran on Linux. Samba4 has support for AD up to 2008 R2. Currently I don't think ADAM is builtin yet, but SAMBA4 is already in a good state, however it still misses a good GUI, (you need a MS OS to configure some stuff, like GPO)
[ Parent | on HN ]