I don't think it's so much "sav[ing] face" as much as it is getting the message out they fully support open source. The long term play is azure which is their

I don't think it's so much "sav[ing] face" as much as it is getting the message out they fully support open source. The long term play is azure which is their big money maker. 1/3 of deploys on azure (IIRC) use linux images. Our startup got a huge credit to host on azure and we don't use .NET nor Windows. Competition is good.