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OpenLogic Backs Linux On Windows Azure With SLA
MikeatWired writes "OpenLogic announced on Thursday that it will provide CentOS Linux — and service-level agreement (SLA) support — through Microsoft's new Windows Azure gallery. Yesterday, Microsoft announced support for Linux instances on its cloud service, among other cloud news, in what Wired Enterprise's Cade Metz dubbed an Amazonian facelift. OpenLogic's Steven Grandchamp writes in a blog post that for 'enterprise developers and IT folks who are multi-source and multi-platform, today's announcement is good news. The Windows and Linux worlds take one step towards each other.' However, Grandchamp notes that despite Microsoft 'maturing its views on open source' with 'significant work' with Node.js, Hadoop, and Samba, the open source community 'will meet [Linux on Azure] with overall wariness and skepticism.' 'Some will view this with hope and a positive step; others will continue to be cynical,' he writes. 'For me, it's part of a larger overall process that continues to signal open source coming of age. What major vendor doesn't have an open source story now? It's such an ingrained part of development, from legacy to mobile to cloud, that we can't live without and we are figuring out how to love living with it.'"
Anyone know what Azure is based on? Something tells me its not the MS Windows Kernel, and probably more BSD....
Open source isn't just now coming of age, and we're not figuring out how to love "living with it". Open source came of age in the 90's, and we've been loving it, not merely living with it ever sense. "We" being people that actually get it. It's people like yourself and Microsoft who are finally understanding its power and coming to a new age in your own evolution, one that can acknowledge how much better this model is than your own. It's sink or swim time for you guys at this point: embrace open source or continue dying a slow death.
You do realize configuring CentOS and RedHat are identical... minus the licensing cost. right?
Let me get this straight.
You're going to take and scale, a per license based hypervisor, that is admitted to be fairly immature, commercial product with poor scaling abilities and couple it with LINUX GPL licensed based guests which, you can throw away all of the benefits of open engineering, all of the GPL based engineering which is far superior to anything corporation has ever concieved, on a scale that no corporation can match which is the LINUX open source GPL kernel. ...running the largest computing machines ever concieved of by man so far..._ALL_ of them run LINUX.
THEY DO NOT RUN WINDOWS.
Is there something I am missing here?
Next thing you are going to tell me is that central banking histroically has been a major win for all countries that ever adopted it resulting in extremly stable currencies and fair trade for all. ;-)
Didn't Einstein say that the definition of insanity is trying something over and over and over again, that has a logical single outcome, yet somehow something different is expected?
So why would we try to scale commercial software when it doesn't work in the private sector, on a cloud and simply just use LINUX?
I personal response is that obviously, these commercial Azure cloud companies must be INSANE.
-Hack
PS: Central Banking is insane too, always destroys civilizations but they keep doing it saying..."Oh, but _THIS_ _TIME_ it will be different."
Got Geometrodynamics? Awe, too hard to figure out? Too bad.
Amazon Web Services has been around for a while now.. they have a pretty robust line of tools ...If this move by microsoft.. and others.. to try and get more opensourcey stuff on the azure cloud is a success.. when should people start looking to move stuff to the azure cloud ?
what is the tipping point ? is there one?
from my point of view it seems like that is a long way off..
Just reading wikipedia's description: " CentOS exists to provide a free enterprise class computing platform and strives to maintain 100% binary compatibility with its upstream source, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)." - Why not just use Red Hat directly?
My AC stalker: " I personally agree with your posts most of the time, but that won't keep me from modding you troll"
Congratulations, you missed the point of CentOS, or rather, RHEL. RHEL/CentOS isn't supposed to be bleeding edge and full of fancy features. It's designed to work, being secure and stable for many years on end.
You did know that CentOS is basically a 1:1 open source release of RHEL, right?
The support is where it's at with RedHat... That said, I personally never use it or Cent anymore because they both are behind in terms of everything. Debian rocks for servers.
s/open source/subscription-free/
I commend you for the use of "M$" despite Microsoft trolls deriding it.
Microsoft has nothing of any importance other than monopoly power they inherited from IBM and money they got through abuse of that monopoly power. Technologically they are just as bankrupt as they are morally.
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
Well, look where the company management :
http://www.openlogic.com/company/team/
The first one ( COO ) is some ex-manager from Microsoft. Does Nokia/Elop ring a bell ?
I think Microsoft realised that RHEL is one of their serious competitor, and so want to erode their user database with such a move. I would not be surprised to see Microsoft as a investor of Openlogic ,and the fact that Olex interoperate with Exchange does seems weird.
..Windows is in all other aspects RetardWare. Slow networking, Buggy SMB (still with Win7), in-transparent config (that registry crap-pile), MFC, slow to launch/stop processes, lots of security issues.
It is only advocated by people who are too lazy to learn Unix.
Surely all the PHB drones will be interested, as they are fascinated by .Net and the other polished turd from M$. They grew their careers on polished PPT crap.
..would surely be proud of that Great American Company "Microsoft". They use all the old dirty tricks and invented some more. In that process they made themselves some very powerful enemies, as words are more powerful than dollar bills on the long run.