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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 com

> 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.

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.