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The Azure Mobile Services look to be a first step for Microsoft to wrap up some of their Azure offerings in a nice little package with a bow on top. Azure goes

by jconley 14y ago

The Azure Mobile Services look to be a first step for Microsoft to wrap up some of their Azure offerings in a nice little package with a bow on top. Azure goes very much beyond what's mentioned in this article. Azure is something like a mashup of Heroku, AWS, and App Engine. It supports java, php, python, anything you can run in an IIS process, and anything you can run in a Windows/Linux VM. And, the new management interface is HTML/Javascript, not Silverlight. See: http://www.windowsazure.com/ http://www.windowsazure.com/

ralfn 14y ago
I'm not too familiar with Azure, and that's mostly because of bias from my side. I have this idea in my head, that Microsoft never ever just sells a development tool on its own merits. As if any product created used Microsoft tools automatically makes that product part of the vendor-lock-in of Microsoft, in some sense. And while I was thinking that, I came to the conclusion I haven't looked at any of their products targeting developpers in almost a decade. Maybe things have changed. But all the stated differences in the linked article seem to suggest, things are not that different. But it's just one article, and you seem very informed, am I wrong, in this assumption? When Microsoft creates a development tool, is the intention to capitalize on me, as a developer (which I would like), or to control what I can capitalize on in the market space? (which is just unacceptable) Is it not smart, that the majority of developers, tend to always favor independent parties, where we are the core customer. From Heroku, to Github. Neither one has any interest in what platforms we support. They only care about supporting us, so we keep paying them. One could even argue, that most development tools provided by platform vendors, are intrinsically destined to be anti-competitive.

by jconley 14y ago

ralfn 14y ago

I'm not too familiar with Azure, and that's mostly because of bias from my side. I have this idea in my head, that Microsoft never ever just sells a development tool on its own merits. As if any product created used Microsoft tools automatically makes that product part of the vendor-lock-in of Microsoft, in some sense. And while I was thinking that, I came to the conclusion I haven't looked at any of their products targeting developpers in almost a decade. Maybe things have changed. But all the stated differences in the linked article seem to suggest, things are not that different. But it's just one article, and you seem very informed, am I wrong, in this assumption? When Microsoft creates a development tool, is the intention to capitalize on me, as a developer (which I would like), or to control what I can capitalize on in the market space? (which is just unacceptable) Is it not smart, that the majority of developers, tend to always favor independent parties, where we are the core customer. From Heroku, to Github. Neither one has any interest in what platforms we support. They only care about supporting us, so we keep paying them. One could even argue, that most development tools provided by platform vendors, are intrinsically destined to be anti-competitive.