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Windows Server takes most of the profit in the web server market. SQL Server does very well even with PostgreSQL and MySQL being given away for free. They compe

Windows Server takes most of the profit in the web server market. SQL Server does very well even with PostgreSQL and MySQL being given away for free. They compete with free as in beer offerings and keep making a ton of money. Here's a list of 16 billion dollar businesses for Microsoft[1]: Windows Windows Server Windows Azure Office (client) Xbox SQL Server System Center (client and server both, so includes Windows Intune) SharePoint Visual Studio Dynamics (CRM and ERP) Online Advertising (search and display both) Office 365 Client-access license (CAL) suites (formerly known as desktop access) Enterprise Services (including consulting) Enterprise communication business (Exchange plus Lync) That list is from 2013 so I now think their phone business and the Surface business either reached or are close to a billion in revenue each. And all of them are increasing in revenue by a lot, except for maybe Windows client. Why do they care too much if Linux is on a billion routers or super computers? This is like iPhone vs. Android. Android may be on a billion phones, but Apple is printing money with iPhones. But yeah Microsoft has been "dying" from the 2000s, if you believe Slashdot posts, and the Year of the Linux Desktop(TM) is really right around the corner this time. [1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-16-billion-dollar-businesses-an-updated-list/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-16-billion-dollar-bu...

vetinari 11y ago
> Windows Server takes most of the profit in the web server market. SQL Server does very well even with PostgreSQL and MySQL being given away for free. They compete with free as in beer offerings and keep making a ton of money. Sales network is something entirely different than technical capabilities. Especially, when half of Microsoft is sales force. Yes, there are companies using Microsoft products and Microsoft is getting paid very well for that. However, these companies are not on forefront of computing and are not considered to be top companies in the area of cutting edge development. Show me some cutting edge company/startup in the IT sector that is using Microsoft products and is not a statistical error. There is a reason for that.
- jfuhrman 11y ago
  >Show me some cutting edge company/startup in the IT sector that is using Microsoft products and is not a statistical error. Stack Overflow http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/7/21/stackoverflow-update-560m-pageviews-a-month-25-servers-and-i.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/7/21/stackoverflow-upda... Newegg and a bunch of others like Plenty of fish The real reason that you see comparatively fewer is they worry about license costs, not about the lack of technical functionality.
- jodrellblank 11y ago
  > over 40% of Azure revenue is from startups > http://microsoft-news.com/over-40-of-microsoft-azure-revenue-is-now-from-startups-and-isvs/ http://microsoft-news.com/over-40-of-microsoft-azure-revenue... > Microsoft offer $500k cloud credits to YCombinator startups in Winter 2015 > http://blog.ycombinator.com/$500k-of-azure-credit-for-yc-startups http://blog.ycombinator.com/$500k-of-azure-credit-for-yc-sta... > HN thread about people using MS stacks in their startups, with lots of replies > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8545278 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8545278
- godzilla82 11y ago
  Exactly. Whenever I find people comparing opensource tech stacks with microsoft ones using just numbers, I feel they have no clue how sales work in the real world. They feel all products (software or otherwise) get sold just because enough demand exists in the system. They have no clue, how much pushing/shoving/manipulating goes on on the supply side of equation.

vetinari 11y ago

> Windows Server takes most of the profit in the web server market. SQL Server does very well even with PostgreSQL and MySQL being given away for free. They compete with free as in beer offerings and keep making a ton of money. Sales network is something entirely different than technical capabilities. Especially, when half of Microsoft is sales force. Yes, there are companies using Microsoft products and Microsoft is getting paid very well for that. However, these companies are not on forefront of computing and are not considered to be top companies in the area of cutting edge development. Show me some cutting edge company/startup in the IT sector that is using Microsoft products and is not a statistical error. There is a reason for that.

jfuhrman 11y ago
>Show me some cutting edge company/startup in the IT sector that is using Microsoft products and is not a statistical error. Stack Overflow http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/7/21/stackoverflow-update-560m-pageviews-a-month-25-servers-and-i.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/7/21/stackoverflow-upda... Newegg and a bunch of others like Plenty of fish The real reason that you see comparatively fewer is they worry about license costs, not about the lack of technical functionality.
jodrellblank 11y ago
> over 40% of Azure revenue is from startups > http://microsoft-news.com/over-40-of-microsoft-azure-revenue-is-now-from-startups-and-isvs/ http://microsoft-news.com/over-40-of-microsoft-azure-revenue... > Microsoft offer $500k cloud credits to YCombinator startups in Winter 2015 > http://blog.ycombinator.com/$500k-of-azure-credit-for-yc-startups http://blog.ycombinator.com/$500k-of-azure-credit-for-yc-sta... > HN thread about people using MS stacks in their startups, with lots of replies > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8545278 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8545278
godzilla82 11y ago
Exactly. Whenever I find people comparing opensource tech stacks with microsoft ones using just numbers, I feel they have no clue how sales work in the real world. They feel all products (software or otherwise) get sold just because enough demand exists in the system. They have no clue, how much pushing/shoving/manipulating goes on on the supply side of equation.