Mark Shuttleworth Highly Recommends Windows Azure

Seems like a pattern. Fail and then cozy up to MS and their cursed gold. I smell shades of Novell. So three years and then no more Canonical?

Getting your product in front of people and getting their attention is hard. Of course I suspect that the details of these Azure deals may be unsavory, what with MS' successful extortion racket business model...but think of all the Windows users getting exposed to Linux via Azure.

Considering Canonical is a privately held company I have no idea if they are succeeding or failing. I wouldn't count on them failing if I were you.

Like I said in the other thread, it's the business of doing business, no big deal.

upon its bogus patents?

Will wonders never cease?

You want to get pissed off at somebody for validating bogus Microsoft patents, get pissed off at LG, Samsung, HTC and Acer for signing licensing agreements with Microsoft for Android. Microsoft makes more money licensing Android now that it does from Windows phone!

That's validating Microsoft patents.

Novell (not SuSE), on the other hand, extracted hundreds of millions from Microsoft -- didn't pay them a freakin' dime -- in patent infringement settlements/awards. The patent language was a last-minute throw-in and didn't extract anything from Novell or make any difference in the agreed terms. Novell would have been idiotic to let such meaningless language throw a monkey-wrench into a 350 million dollar settlement, and yet...

their victory was met with all of the yelling and screaming that should be reserved for the phone companies who are actually paying good money to Microsoft.

I love free software. I love free software people, but, for such a smart group of people, we can really be morons.

Azure? Innat the thingo that completely died and completely cut off all its customers due to a *nyarf* leap year bug?

Quoting:Azure? Innat the thingo that completely died and completely cut off ...

May be you are thinking of Zune, Azure is MS cloud computing services platform.

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No it was Azure that was unavailable this year -- one of MSs regular leap-year failures. Azure does not have a very good history of upt-ime.

And they want the world to run Linux on Azure?

Sure, if nine 5's of uptime is important.

(Yes, I typed that right.)

Quoting:No it was Azure that was unavailable this year

I didn't know, thanks. So MS Azure is coming back from the dead, or dead computer running! :-)

>...or dead computer running!

This is Windows we're talking about. At best it can only walk, not run.

I wonder what the deal was here with Ubuntu. I suspect Shuttleworth rather than Ballmer was the winner. Why waste time with a system with a dubious future unless money was involved.

Ballmer these days is totally behind the 8 ball. With a pile of loot from the Windows tax that makes him a tempting sucker target.

Quoting:This is Windows we're talking about. At best it can only walk, not run.

Thanks, I knew that! I was going to edit it after I posted it to rhyme with "dead man walking" but was too lazy. :-)

Quoting:Why waste time with a system with a dubious future unless money was involved.

I believe the benefit Ubuntu is after and hopes to accomplish by joining with MS is to infiltrating the market where Red Hat is flourishing.

Unless Shuttleworth learned from Novell's mistakes and taken special precautions, it is the same desperate thinking that eventually led to Novell's demise.

What I find interesting is that while some on here are attacking Red Hat eight ways to Sunday, Mr. Shuttleworth, Canonical and Ubuntu seem to get a free pass after making a deal with Microsoft. Why is that?

Everyone already knows that Ubuntu is opportunistic. We expect better from Red Hat, maybe?!?!

Quoting:Everyone already knows that Ubuntu is opportunistic. We expect better from Red Hat, maybe?!?!

Red Hat isn't being opportunistic. They are doing what they must to survive in today's (unfortunate) IT business environment. In my view they are better and that hasn't changed.

Shrug, it's just business. Microsoft need help to get Azure out there.Ubuntu need help to get more Ubuntu in the Enterprise. Microsoft seel more Azure licenses, Ubuntu sell more support contracts. Linux becomes more pervasive in the server room.

Quoting:Everyone already knows that Ubuntu is opportunistic. We expect better from Red Hat, maybe?!?!

This begs the immediate question of What are the "better" expectations from Red Hat?

Clearly, Ubuntu is "opportunistically" scaling up competition with Red Hat in the Enterprise. The same holds true for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. To remain competitive and to essentially "survive in today's (unfortunate) IT business environment", naturally, Red Hat must follow suit. Fairly straightforward.

A perhaps "better" question one could pose on this is How will this competition among major Linux Server vendors to accommodate Azure be leveraged to non Enterprise-oriented distros and FOSS vendors (i.e., the Desktop) ??

Quoting:Linux becomes more pervasive in the server room.

Only if MS doesn't sabotage to prevent it.

Azure's a red herring,... It's M$'s attempt to be the "me too" kid when it comes to cloud services and virtualization. I'm unimpressed. Users will be too unless the platform can be delivered with rock solid up times.

If you hadn't figured it out fro my previous post,... it was quasi sarcastic, by the way... But there is a silver lining of truth there. The open source community expects RH to be the pillar of the community, along with Linus and RMS. A white hat programmer, and idealist, and a company that actually managed to make something of it all... Of course, I'm oversimplifying...