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Canonical is promoting today its new partnership with Microsoft that allows Ubuntu Linux to run on Windows Azure.
As the latest string of Microsoft-Linux news, following Microsoft sponsoring LinuxTag Berlin and then hosting GNOME & Mono Festival of Love, there's a new Microsoft-Canonical partnership.
This morning I received an email with the subject line of "UNDER EMBARGO: Canonical's Newest Partnership." In that email, Canonical's press representative is pushing the new partnership whereby Microsoft is letting Ubuntu in on their Windows Azure cloud computing platform.
Microsoft is now allowing non-Windows platforms to run on their Azure cloud computing platform. Besides Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, other distributions being offered by Microsoft on Azure include CentOS 6.2, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2, and openSUSE 12.1.
Below is the Canonical email about this new Microsoft partnership for Azure.
I thought you might be interested in some news *under embargo until 12:00 noon EDT today* from the Canonical/Ubuntu front. Today, Canonical is announcing its newest partnership with Microsoft, which will provide Ubuntu users with the ability to obtain and launch official Ubuntu images on Microsoft’s Windows Azure.
What is Microsoft Windows Azure?
Windows Azure is a cloud computing platform (PaaS) used to build, host and scale web applications through Microsoft data centers.
With this partnership, Windows Azure now allows:
· Full management of individual virtual machine instances
· Full customization and control of infrastructure behind Cloud instances
This move represents a necessary and strategic step for Canonical, as they aim to create continued Cloud ubiquity amongst the industry, as many developers and IT shops continue to use both Ubuntu and Windows as workloads migrate to the Cloud.
You can find full details about the partnership here in a Canonical blog post, which will be posted as of 12:00 noon EDT today – or, if you’d like to discuss what this collaboration means from an industry perspective, we’d be more than happy to set up a call with Chris Kenyon, Vice President of Sales and Development at Canonical.
You can also take Ubuntu for Windows Azure for a spin here. There's also more information via the Canonical Blog. |
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Does this mean Microsoft is no longer planning to sue Linux vendors into oblivion (for patent infringement) and now openly endorses Linux? |
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Does this mean Microsoft is no longer planning to sue Linux vendors into oblivion (for patent infringement) and now openly endorses Linux?
This is just the normal EEE mode... they are luring the suckers in!
Seriously I am going to partner with some one who has threatened to "sue [me] into oblivion!" I don't think so!
Yes keep your enemies close and all that... but thats a LITTLE TOO CLOSE!
Wake up people! This is business as usual at the evil dark company!  |
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Here's more analysis -
Ubuntu, CentOS, & SUSE Linux comes to Windows Azure:
Microsoft has announced that its Azure cloud will support persistent VMs which will enable users to run Linux distributions. These distros are: openSUSE 12.1, CentOS 6.2, Ubuntu 12.04 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP2.
This development isn’t as surprising as it may sound. As ace Microsoft reporter Mary Jo Foley reported earlier this year, “Running Linux on Azure has been a surprisingly big business-customer request.” A quick look at the Cloud Market analysis of operating systems on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) on June 7th found that there over 18-thousand Ubuntu Linux instances currently running and about 10-thousand otherwise unidentified Linux instances. In contrast, there were only 33-hundred Windows instances. It’s as plain as the nose on your face: businesses want Linux servers on the cloud. |
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| Microsoft gets accused of many things, but rarely of being stupid. They've been consistently making their VM technology compatible with how the market uses such things. To not do so would be foolish.
This seems to be neither sinister nor surprising. |
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| said by No_Strings:This seems to be neither sinister nor surprising. ...getting a feel for this situation, it's about MS profiting from Linux by catering to cloud corporate market demand (more Linux + less Windows). |
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| I think that's a fair characterization. The net for enterprise customers is greater compatibility and more choices. It's hard to see a bad side (other than the fanatical extremists that rail against the thought of MS even drawing a breath).
If only we could get such cooperation in Congress.  |
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| said by No_Strings:The net for enterprise customers is greater compatibility and more choices. Hopefully that's what will actually happen. As for Congress... fogetaboutit. |
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said by No_Strings:Microsoft gets accused of many things, but rarely of being stupid. They've been consistently making their VM technology compatible with how the market uses such things. To not do so would be foolish.
This seems to be neither sinister nor surprising. It has been my assoumption all along that the MS cloud would only support MS technologies. I felt that this would make MS's cloud rather unnapealing to the enterprise that is very accustomed to deploying Unix-based OSes.
I also didn't think anyone would run a cloud that supports all OSes they may want to run, and then a seperate Azure cloud just for their Micrsoft solutions.
It looks like Microsoft understands that their traditional model of forcing customers to use MS technologies for their entire stack is not going to work in this space.
This knee-jerk anti-MS bating that's so common here really shows the difference between who here understands the realities of technology and who comes to opinions without even thinking about what they are thinking.
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So M$ isnt the Antitrustchrist? 
I'm with Senior 'strings on this one. I see a company developing ties to further explore profit-gathering. It seems, at least in this context, that Microsoft stands to gain profits by embracing the penguin than ignoring it.
Neither sinister, nor surprising. (Indeed Microsoft seeking to cash in as much as possible isnt surprising in the least.)
Its encouraging to see, but I seriously doubt this action will herald the dawn of any sort of fundamental shift in either camps base attitude towards each other.
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| said by Jason:Its encouraging to see, but I seriously doubt this action will herald the dawn of any sort of fundamental shift in either camps base attitude towards each other.
Meh... they have many more open source projects than any open-source zealot will ever concede exists.
Microsoft has played well with Linux in the server world for a few years now. In 2009 they were forced to, lately they have volunteered seeing the benefits (errr... revenue) of being an inclusive choice instead of exclusive. In 2011, they were ranked 17th top contributor to the Linux kernel. Microsoft isn't stupid, progressing comp scy en masse benefits them as much as everyone else in the industry. Contributions to Ruby, Python, generations/iterations of C, compilers, debuggers, etc. have existed for years.
No surprise here, at all.
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