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Planning to launch a SaaS product full .NET stack running on Azure, BizSpark gives you almost a year of free server time ($3700 worth, 9 months worth of their b
by Mandatum 12y ago
Planning to launch a SaaS product full .NET stack running on Azure, BizSpark gives you almost a year of free server time ($3700 worth, 9 months worth of their biggest single VM uptime).
It's hard to say no when they give you so much free stuff for a startup-style business.
- Oculus 12y agoIt's actually pretty easy once you realize that you have to pay for the licences on all Microsoft technologies once BizSpark ends. It gives just enough time to be too locked in to easily adopt a different technology stack.
- hayksaakian 12y agocan you run linux VMs on azure? i think so. free servers are free servers.
- cpayne 12y agoMicrosoft have gone out of their way to support everything! http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-linux-endorsed-distributions/ http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virt... http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/#Linux http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-mac...
- yuhong 12y agoI think they did an offer to change this later.
- taspeotis 12y ago> It's actually pretty easy once you realize that you have to pay for the licences on all Microsoft technologies once BizSpark ends For the most part, the stuff that runs on Azure doesn't have a discrete licensing cost. You pay the hourly rate for the resource.