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Red Hat and Microsoft Partner On Azure (redhat.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the playing-nicely-with-others dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Satya Nadella has made some interesting reforms to Microsoft. Today, Red Hat and Microsoft announced that they will partner to deliver Red Hat's product suite in Azure. Red Hat will also support .NET core in RHEL. Additionally, Red Hat's CloudForms product will now work with Hyper-V/Azure, RHEV, VMware, and AWS. Microsoft has certainly come a long way from the Halloween Memos. Here are Red Hat's blog post and Microsoft's blog post about the announcement

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  1. Not surprising. systemd is very Windows-inspired. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm not surprised. After all, the architecture and philosophy of Red Hat's systemd appears to be very much inspired by the architecture and philosophy of Windows. Systemd is all about one-thing-doing-everything-poorly, which has typically been the Windows approach, rather than the traditional UNIX approach of many-things-each-doing-one-thing-very-well. Systemd represents the Windowsification of Linux distributions, which have traditionally taken a much more UNIX-like approach. Bringing Windows and systemd/Linux together like this makes perfect sense, because they do complement one another due to their similarities.

  2. Trust Issues by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And after three decades of Microsoft earning zero trust I think I'll continue to take a pass. ...And remain skeptical.

  3. Red Hat has come a long way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I would add Red Hat has come a long way too. Away from the free software community on which they were built. Forcing systemd down our throats. They are no better than Micro$oft. There was a time when such a collaboration would have been unthinkable.

    1. Re:Red Hat has come a long way by Nighttime · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Why yes, because Red Hat don't contribute anything back to the kernel, sponsor a community distro or open source the software from companies they buy. We don't need their type around here! </sarcasm>

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  4. First they ignore you by wiredog · · Score: 1, Insightful

    then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

    We won.

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  5. Re:MS approach IS Swiss Army knife, not scalpel by neilo_1701D · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I just right-clicked a random place on my screen and saw that Excel sorts on FONT COLOR.

    Which is perfect if you have complex condition formatting rules. Your point?

  6. Re:MS approach IS Swiss Army knife, not scalpel by Zak3056 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Microsoft software DOES tend to be Swiss Army Knife. MS Word has THOUSANDS of menu and option items. I just right-clicked a random place on my screen and saw that Excel sorts on FONT COLOR.

    You've obviously never dealt with people who mail out 50,000 line spreadsheets and say, "the items in question are the highlighted rows." I had users dancing in the aisles when we gave them office 2007 which introduced the "sort by color" feature. That's pretty much the fundamental problem of bitching about MS Office: pretty much everyone agrees that only 5-10% of the feature set is ever used without ever acknowledging that everyone is using a different 5-10%.

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  7. Re:M$ and Redhat? by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Systemd wants to be rundll32.exe, so in a way it makes perfect sense.

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