Honestly, that Azure Ledger SQL idea makes more sense for today's enterprise systems than a decentralised blockchain. Not because "blockchains are bad" which un

Honestly, that Azure Ledger SQL idea makes more sense for today's enterprise systems than a decentralised blockchain. Not because "blockchains are bad" which unfortunately is what most of the comments have turned into, but rather because it makes a lot more sense in a business context. Azure's main competition is obviously AWS. And AWS already offer a cloud-based blockchain service used by many big names.[1] Seems to me that Microsoft is just following in their footsteps with that new approach of centralising the ledger. Basically the same thing Amazon's main offering does. Most large enterprises right now are turning to centralised cloud solutions, that's just the way the market is right now, companies just want to stick their entire businesses on hyperscalers. It's simply easier and cheaper to move an on-prem database to a cloud service than it is to create and maintain a decentralised network. Taking the blockchain's data integrity features and adding them to existing cloud services therefore makes a lot more sense for actual enterprise use today when you want to compete with AWS and sell cloud subscriptions which Azure does. I do believe decentralisation in general will mature over time, and certainly many arguments can be made in its favour including for enterprise. I do find it concerning that virtually every big company and even government organisations run everything on AWS, GCP, Azure. And once you have everything running in one of those bubbles there's lock-in. I'm sure most of us would agree that's hardly ideal. But at the end of the day if you're catering to enterprise and enterprise is saying "we want to throw everything on your servers and have you manage it for us" you have to listen to the market. [1] https://aws.amazon.com/blockchain/ https://aws.amazon.com/blockchain/