Re:Microsoft Announces Azure Stack
by mobiplayer on Monday May 04, 2015 @01:01PM
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Dude, if there's one thing in abundance in a DC is non-open-source software. Can't imagine many DCs without one of these: Cisco, Juniper, Checkpoint, VMWare, Microsoft, Dell/HP on ILO/DRAC, F5 or Brocade; you effing name it. Your network, your SAN, all your effing data, everything! goes through some non-open-source'ed software stack. Oh yes, and let's not forget about all your NIC drivers for starters.
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I was attacking MSs non-open-source data center software, and of the brands you just name I also avoid some.
Some proprietary software vendors are not _that_ bad.
I think Microsoft has realized that their 'our way or the highway' approach only works for as long as the highway doesn't offer anything you need.
The fact that Azure can be used solely to deploy Linux VMs, for example, is appealing, and I've heard a lot of good things about it from iOS/Android developers who've used it.