[ignoramous]

At this point in AWS' life, enterprise sales is king. Not surprising that there's shades of Oracle / Microsoft in them. May be, Google hired Oracle #2, Thomas Kurian, to head GCP for similar reasons. Like it or not, Oracle-sized shadow looms large over BigCloud.

[LoveGracePeace]

It surprises me when people lump Oracle (or AWS for that matter) in with the likes of Microsoft.

[nextaccountic]

The process to make MS-OOXML an ISO standard was a dirty one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open... and 2008 wasn't that long ago

[dafelst]

Ballmer era Microsoft is a very different beast to Nadella era Microsoft

[yrro]

I don't see Microsoft jumping to fix all the interop issues their software has with ODF.

[ghaff]

Why? They're all enterprise software companies. They participate in open source to greater or lesser degrees. They seem absolutely part of the same category. This isn't either positive or negative commentary but just observation of what they do as businesses.

[christophilus]

In that Microsoft is way worse or way better? I’m not clear, because they’re all pretty scummy.

[ipaddr]

You are right Microsoft could be a more difficult entity to deal with.