> how many people will perceive any value in stacking a Microsoft technology (.NET) on top of UNIX? That's not the point of this. MS is positioning Azure as th

> how many people will perceive any value in stacking a Microsoft technology (.NET) on top of UNIX? That's not the point of this. MS is positioning Azure as the cloud for enterprise. Azure can run a bunch of hosted services you had to administer yourself (Active Directory, Office 365, etc.), it can run any Windows server apps you had, and now it can run enterprise Linux apps on the most popular enterprise Linux distro. So if you're a company that has Office, Active Directory and an Oracle database running on RHEL, you can move your everything into Azure.