Microsoft's First Azure Hosted Service Is Powered By Linux

jones_supa (887896) writes "Canonical, through John Zannos, VP Cloud Alliances, has proudly announced that the first ever Microsoft Azure hosted service will be powered by Ubuntu Linux. This piece of news comes from the Strata + Hadoop World Conference, which takes place this week in California. The fact of the matter is that the news came from Microsoft who announced the preview of Azure HDInsight (an Apache Hadoop-based hosted service) on Ubuntu clusters yesterday at the said event. This is definitely great news for Canonical, as their operating system is getting recognized for being extremely reliable when handling Big Data. Ubuntu is now the leading cloud and scale-out Linux-based operating system."

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Fight of the year: SystemD vs Microsoft

[OzPeter]

Roll up, roll up,
See the former champion fight the young contender!
Who will consume who?
Will Microsoft wipe out SystemD?
Or will "the Borg" finally meet its match?

Worst product name this year

[Fortran IV]

"...the preview of Azure HDInsight (an Apache Hadoop-based hosted service)..."

Anybody wanna take odds on whether this gets nicknamed "Hindsight"?