New on LowEndTalk? Please Register and read our Community Rules.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
Microsoft has developed its own Linux
Redmond's revealed that it's built something called Azure Cloud Switch (ACS), describing it as “a cross-platform modular operating system for data center networking built on Linux” and “our foray into building our own software for running network devices like switches.”
It's pretty interesting to see them using Linux in their Azure lineup. Do you think it makes sense?
Comments
Why wouldn't it make sense?
now that's NEWS
In some ways, it's giving credence to their competitor.
They also use BSD, back in the days they bought stuff that used to work on BSD and failed to port it to windows, I think hotmail/msn was one of them. Even their websites were hosted on BSD machines since most of them were vulnerable it was possible to execute commands demonstrating that it was BSD indeed.
The fact that the BSD licenses allow code to be used in proprietary softwares has helped them a lot.
Microsoft has never so much had an issue with Linux directly, it's their inability to monetize it that is the issue.
Everyone forgets Xenix
linux is make sense because community can help them develop ACS.
@Steven_F So you have time to post topics but not enough time to handle your own support tickets? People are here are getting tired of LET being used as your help desk, it would be nice if you could handle your business my friend.
Cheers!
Well, both a helicopter and a lawn mower have blades, but you don't turn a helicopter upside down and mow your lawn.
Windows and Linux are both operating systems, but I think most will agree Windows isn't really suited to a network device environment. I don't see them as direct competitors in this space.
Microsoft has offered Linux VMs in Azure (running CentOS, Ubuntu, etc.) for nearly three years.