Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation

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https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/16/microsoft-joins-the-linux-foundation/

How is this for a surprise: Microsoft today announced that it is joining the Linux Foundation as a high-paying Platinum member.

“This may come as a surprise to you, but they were not big fans,” Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin told me about his foundation’s history with Microsoft. The new Microsoft under CEO Satya Nadella, however, is singing a very different tune. Today’s Microsoft is one of the biggest open source contributors around. Over the course of just the last few years, it has essentially built Canonical’s Ubuntu distribution into Windows 10, brought SQL Server to Linux, open-sourced core parts of its .NET platform and partnered with Red Hat, SUSE and others. As Zemlin noted, Microsoft has also contributed to a number of Linux Foundation-managed projects like Node.js, OpenDaylight, the Open Container Initiative, the R Consortium and the Open API Initiative.
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Its the move away from products to services and not about selling Windows, Exchange and Outlook its about providing Email so if it runs on Windows, Linux or the Moon as long as money is made no one cares (except fanbois)
 
There's a lot of money to be made in Linux deployment and support.
I'm loving this new Microsoft, but let's not forget what their real motivations are here... ;)
 
LazyLion said:
There's a lot of money to be made in Linux deployment and support.
I'm loving this new Microsoft, but let's not forget what their real motivations are here... ;)
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“Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more,”?
 
Interesting move by M$ to say the least

If it's for the benefit of consumers then I say go for it, but one has to wonder what the end game will be...
 
wabbit16 said:
Interesting move by M$ to say the least

If it's for the benefit of consumers then I say go for it, but one has to wonder what the end game will be...
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Same as any other company, make as much money as possible with the least amount of effort...
 
The only reason I have Win10 on my desktop is because of gaming. The thing that grates my ass is that you have very little control over the OS. Trying to figure out what is using your bandwidth is a ballache as svchost etc actually means jackschite. Windows just does it's own thing whereas in linux there are no 'hidden' processes you keep trying to kill unlike win10 and their description makes no sense.

That said I do like having bash available in win10.
 
ponder said:
Not sure if people should go down that road if you have mariadb etc at your disposal but then again I know jack about databases.
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Relevant to why they joined the Linux Foundation. :p
Or you're starting a conversation and I know near nothing about databases.
 
Johnatan56 said:
Or you're starting a conversation and I know near nothing about databases.
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Guilty as charged, I just reckon they should stick to the lesser evils. MariaDB came about after Oracle purchased SUN (OpenSQL) and were cnuts about it so the community forked it.
 
ponder said:
Guilty as charged, I just reckon they should stick to the lesser evils. MariaDB came about after Oracle purchased SUN (OpenSQL) and were cnuts about it so the community forked it.
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Guess it depends on the company, if their entire system was on SQL Server, this would be an "easy" migration, they have already purchased all the tools, their developers are probably comfortable with it, etc.
 
Johnatan56 said:
Guess it depends on the company, if their entire system was on SQL Server, this would be an "easy" migration, they have already purchased all the tools, their developers are probably comfortable with it, etc.
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Consulting at a company that uses Oracle db then they ETL into a cube for use on SSRS.
 
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