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Microsoft's First Azure Hosted Service Is Powered By Linux

Posted by timothy on from the linux-is-pretty-good-as-a-server dept.

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."

4 of 66 comments (clear)

  1. Ubuntu is going to die. by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It has been embraced. So you know what comes next.

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    sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
  2. Leading? by markdavis · · Score: 5, Interesting

    >"Ubuntu is now the leading cloud and scale-out Linux-based operating system"

    More than CentOS/RHEL? I would want to see real numbers to back up that claim or at least a clarification of their definitions.

  3. sometimes you can't eat your own dogfood by colinjl · · Score: 3, Interesting

    About 15 years ago, when a large Windows (NT) project was having trouble getting DNS to work properly at scale on NT, the SEs went to the source to ask how Microsoft themselves made it work. The sheepish answer was *cough*unix*cough*

  4. Re:Wow by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If I were in charge of that, you'd have it like yesterday :)

    On a more serious note, at this point I wouldn't put it into the "never gonna happen" bucket anymore, just based on all the things I've seen the company do in the past year that were in that bucket two years before. But either way, it will take a long time - bash (and any Unix shell, really) really expects a lot of Unixisms from the environment that it runs it. Basically, I don't think you can get a proper *sh without having a proper POSIX layer underneath. And all we have today is Cygwin, which is basically a giant hack.

    On the other hand, command prompt is getting some long needed love in Win10, and hopefully beyond. And when they asked about what people want from that effort, the requests for things Unix ranked pretty high on the list. These guys have said that they'll pay close attention to feedback, so I hope they'll deliver on that promise.