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Outside bay area and startups world, windows servers are gold standard. Particularly, large enterprises. They have created nice lock-ins too. Majority of large
by dm8 14y ago
Outside bay area and startups world, windows servers are gold standard. Particularly, large enterprises. They have created nice lock-ins too. Majority of large enterprises (not just in US but around world) have Windows stack meaning majority of tech team consists of .net folks with all the .net tools like visual studio, MSDN licenses etc. And with Azure, you add cloud computing too. So it's likely that all these big enterprises are going to use Azure with their fat checquebooks.
P.S. I haven't used Azure platform yet so I can't comment on product quality of Azure
- Nursie 14y ago"Outside bay area and startups world, windows servers are gold standard." Not so sure this is true. Unless you mean to include the whole software industry in 'startups world', but the likes of IBM are not really startups or bay based. You might also like to think about whether 'gold standard' or 'default' is more accurate.
- lambda 14y agoIn the general purpose business IT world. Just about every small to medium business that isn't heavily tech focused is built around Microsoft software. There is a ton of business IT that is entirely based around the Microsoft platform, and they are making good inroads there with their cloud services. Why run your own Sharepoint? Why buy everyone a desktop license for Office, when you can run it in the cloud and easily sync?
- Nursie 14y ago"In the general purpose business IT world. Just about every small to medium business..." Which is not the same as "outside the bay area and startups world", which is all I was saying.