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Easy to see their motive. This is good for their cloud business, they already know their monopoly days are over, they're making money with Azure and growing tha
by gokhan 10y ago
Easy to see their motive. This is good for their cloud business, they already know their monopoly days are over, they're making money with Azure and growing that front (127% [1]). Whatever your platform is, you can host it on Azure. And big data will be more lucrative each day. Spark is a cluster computing framework and clusters lead to cloud.
[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-azure-vs-aws-revenue-2016-1 http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-azure-vs-aws-revenu...
- sargun 10y ago"But there's no way to tease out how much of that $5.1 billion is Azure versus the older products. We also don't know if Azure is profitable, althoug the overall business segment earned $2.58 billion in profits — down 1% from a year ago." Servers and tools did $4.5B of revenue in FY12, Q3 (https://www.microsoft.com/Investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earnings/SegmentResults/ServerAndTools/FY12/Q3/performance.aspx https://www.microsoft.com/Investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Ear...). This was before Azure really had any footprint. You do the math.