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by hangonhn 687 days ago
Do you know their reasoning for doing it on Linux? Bigger ecosystem? Performance? I can't imagine licensing fees being an issue.
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nickstinemates 687 days ago
The choice of Linux was controversial when Azure was built. It caused a huge issue with the Windows Server team. But it's what customers wanted, and Azure was built very pragmatically.
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SoftTalker 687 days ago
Hotmail ran on Unix for years after Microsoft acquired it. It took quite some time for them to migrate it to Windows server.
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hylaride 686 days ago
Yeah they ran on FreeBSD, but despite multiple attempts IIRC they didn't fully pull off the migration until Windows 2000. There was a relatively honest paper they wrote about the transition: https://web.archive.org/web/20021021164226/http://www.securi...
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skywhopper 686 days ago
Why would customers be concerned about what OS the service runs on? They want to be able to run Linux VMs but they don’t care what’s under the hood.
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Gud 686 days ago
I would feel uncomfortable if my vm host ran Windows.
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