> I'm quite curious who this is aimed at. .NET shops are often so deeply invested in the Microsoft ecosystem. The cloud (even Microsoft's Azure) has changed th

> I'm quite curious who this is aimed at. .NET shops are often so deeply invested in the Microsoft ecosystem. The cloud (even Microsoft's Azure) has changed this somewhat, and continues to do so. I work as a architect for companies in the enterprise world, and most businesses are now much more open to using Linux and non-Microsoft systems. I recently finished a project for a Microsoft shop, using Postgres, RabbitMQ, Linux and dotnet Core, and this is no longer unusual for me. This current situation was utterly unimaginable before the cloud - I love finally having the freedom to choose something because it's a good fit, rather than being forced to use something "because policy". Furthermore, dotnet is not purely for Microsoft shops any more - dotnet Core helped change that. Personally, I use dotnet Core for all my side projects, and it works great on Linux.