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Re:Node.js SDK for Windows Azure on Github by vyrotek on Sunday December 11, 2011 @12:13AM (#3339321)
Not sure, but Microsoft has some great evangelists who are pretty opened minded these days. Steve Marx comes to mind. I've personally met him and he is a pretty smart guy! He's posted tutorials on using various technologies such as Node, Python, Scala and Memcached on Azure. http://blog.smarx.com/

Then there are also other articles on consuming Azure services with clients written in many languages. http://blog.smarx.com/posts/windows-azure-storage-libraries-...

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Re:Node.js SDK for Windows Azure on Github by politician on Sunday December 11, 2011 @01:08AM (#3339421)
As a .NET developer who is actively transitioning to these technologies myself, I applaud Steve & Co; nevertheless, I don't understand the strategy. I was hoping someone around here could explain why this is in their best interest.
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Re:Node.js SDK for Windows Azure on Github by planetjoe on Sunday December 11, 2011 @01:29AM (#3339448)
MS is trying to push enterprises to move their datacenters to azure. To do this, they have to support a wide array of technologies such as java/memcached/ruby.
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Re:Node.js SDK for Windows Azure on Github by jondot on Sunday December 11, 2011 @06:03AM (#3339838)
That's a great business strategy for them. But then again, they abandoned IronRuby, which is very frustrating. (what is the state of IronPython?). Sounds like two hands that aren't really in sync.
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Re:Node.js SDK for Windows Azure on Github by sirclueless on Sunday December 11, 2011 @06:19AM (#3339856)
Microsoft employs 90,000 people. Do you honestly expect all of them to be in sync at all times?

Besides, supporting third-party technologies on Azure and reimplementing open-source programming languages on top of the .NET framework seem tenuously related at best. That's actually one of the advantages of having a corporate agenda in my mind: things that are unlikely to gain traction with developers can be cut with impunity. It prevents fracturing and slowing down communities, all too common in the open-source world (think of the many, many variants of Lisp, or the recent explosion of LanguageX-to-javascript compilers).

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