Why I love the Microsoft BizSpark Programme

Re:Why I love the Microsoft BizSpark Programme by nl on Sunday February 02, 2014 @05:10AM (#7165541)

I'm an Apache committer, and because of that Microsoft gives me a free MSDN subscription (which includes Azure credits).

I use Azure to run assorted Ubuntu machines. They run well, the interface is nice and I have no complaints. I also have a few EC2 VMs (and some DigitalCloud VMs and some Rackspace VMs and in the past have had HP Cloud VMs and Linode VMs).

Amazon is good, too. But I signed up for EC2 before the free micro-tier came in, so I got nothing from them.

So what I want to know is why I should feel scared, running Ubuntu on Azure?

And what is wrong with giving Microsoft credit for offering good programs like Bizspark? (And read that first sentence again, BTW. That's a real thing, and no other company does that)

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Re:Why I love the Microsoft BizSpark Programme by scotu on Sunday February 02, 2014 @06:32AM (#7165684)

absolutely nothing, if there is no lock-in (using asp.net for example). and you can get locked in as if you use some of their services.

you can also evaluate where lock in is acceptable for you/your project... the important thing is knowing it I guess :)

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Re:Why I love the Microsoft BizSpark Programme by UK-AL on Sunday February 02, 2014 @06:41AM (#7165697)

You can get lock in if you use some of Amazons service.

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