Re:Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform
by SideburnsOfDoom on Thursday June 16, 2022 @04:21AM
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> It was clear to me that MS intended .NET to be a wholly-proprietary, Windows-only technology until de Icaza and co. built Mono, when MS grudgingly embraced it.
I kinda disagree with that, based on things that MS people straight-up say out loud. MS changed that "wholly-proprietary, Windows-only technology" thinking for other reasons.
VS and .NET are not the profit centres any more. Azure is. Even #2 spot in cloud computing is vastly profitable (1) and strategic.
Is Azure "struggling" eh, it depends. Sure they want to have more users than AWS, and they're struggling to do that. Struggling to be successful, big, profitable etc, no not at all, Azure is all of those things.
MS wants you to run it on Azure. For just about any "it". They'll even prioritize enticing you to Azure over enticing you to Windows servers. Therefor, there should be a good "it runs on Linux on Azure" story for any popular dev tool. Doubly so for the MS developer base.
I kinda disagree with that, based on things that MS people straight-up say out loud. MS changed that "wholly-proprietary, Windows-only technology" thinking for other reasons.
VS and .NET are not the profit centres any more. Azure is. Even #2 spot in cloud computing is vastly profitable (1) and strategic.
Is Azure "struggling" eh, it depends. Sure they want to have more users than AWS, and they're struggling to do that. Struggling to be successful, big, profitable etc, no not at all, Azure is all of those things.
MS wants you to run it on Azure. For just about any "it". They'll even prioritize enticing you to Azure over enticing you to Windows servers. Therefor, there should be a good "it runs on Linux on Azure" story for any popular dev tool. Doubly so for the MS developer base.
1) https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-cloud-revenue-at-23-...