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Wait, can you explain what you mean? From my reading (especially from the source blog post[1]), they're releasing server designs and open sourcing some manageme

Wait, can you explain what you mean? From my reading (especially from the source blog post[1]), they're releasing server designs and open sourcing some management software. If you were going to be running Windows Server (or someone convinces you to run it), cheaper commodity hardware is great, but it seems like you'll still be paying for Windows Server licenses. [1] http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2014/01/27/microsoft-contributes-cloud-server-designs-to-the-open-compute-project.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2014/01/27...

Pxtl 13y ago
Maybe MS is trying to make it easy for other people to run private Azure clouds? Even if they have to buy the software from MS? I mean, these cloud infrastructure services have terrible lock-in concerns, so MS saying "you can buy Azure-ish machines with all our software on them from companies X,Y,Z so if you get pissed off at us you can migrate away from Azure painlessly". That would help adoption of the Azure system for them, and MS gets money either way - service fees on Azure or licenses for the Azure platform software being run on the servers sold by the 3rd-party.