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You say it like that and it sounds bad, but you say it like "Microsoft offers a discount if you bundle cloud and license spending" and it sounds pretty fair to
by Raidion 7y ago
You say it like that and it sounds bad, but you say it like "Microsoft offers a discount if you bundle cloud and license spending" and it sounds pretty fair to me.
Goodness knows there are a lot of other cloud options than Microsoft. If you're tightly coupled with one vendor you're gonna be at their mercy.
- Dylan16807 7y agoWhen you have a monopoly on Y, it is not fair to offer a discount on a bundle of X and Y. The problem is not the general idea of a discount bundle, it's leveraging a monopoly to get more business in a different market.
- Strom 7y agoMicrosoft doesn't have anything even remotely resembling a monopoly on server OSes.
- traskjd 7y agoIs Microsoft a monopoly on Server operating systems? I’d say no, and not by a long shot. Even on Azure, Linux is more than 50% of their workloads.
- Dylan16807 7y agoIf you're running nginx, no. For most software deployed on a windows server, there is no compatible OS. There's no real choice.
- toyg 7y agoTo be fair, this affects the server market, where MS was never really a monopolist.