As an ASP.NET developer, to me Azure just looks like another web hosting option for ASP.NET web apps. You can get hosting at lots of other places for ASP.NET apps so I don't see any lock in. The pricing will determine how much of a threat it is to traditional web hosts. It seems Azure may have some advantages in terms of sudden scale up ability.
I wish they had tested open source.NET apps against open source non.NET apps.
You really can't run sharepoint on public sites very easily or cheaply.
There are a number of open source.NET portals they could have tested including
DotNetNuke http://www.dotnetnuke.com/ VB.NET
Rainbow Portal http://www.rainbowportal.net/ C#
or my favorite
mojoPortal http://www.mojoportal.com/ C# and also can run on linux with Mono
http://www.mojoportal.com/ is an open source CMS that runs on mono and has a Shared Files module that stores file securly so they can't be retrieved with simple http request but can easily be downloaded/uploaded by users with permission. It doesn't currently suport ldap authentication but that is a planned feature. It also supports file version history. Lots of other godd feature like blogs, forums etc.
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As an ASP.NET developer, to me Azure just looks like another web hosting option for ASP.NET web apps. You can get hosting at lots of other places for ASP.NET apps so I don't see any lock in. The pricing will determine how much of a threat it is to traditional web hosts. It seems Azure may have some advantages in terms of sudden scale up ability.
I wish they had tested open source .NET apps against open source non .NET apps.
You really can't run sharepoint on public sites very easily or cheaply.
There are a number of open source .NET portals they could have tested including
DotNetNuke http://www.dotnetnuke.com/ VB.NET
Rainbow Portal http://www.rainbowportal.net/ C#
or my favorite
mojoPortal http://www.mojoportal.com/ C# and also can run on linux with Mono
It looks similar to what Eric Royer has been doing for years in the subways of Boston http://www.guitarmachine.com/
http://www.mojoportal.com/ is an open source CMS that runs on mono and has a Shared Files module that stores file securly so they can't be retrieved with simple http request but can easily be downloaded/uploaded by users with permission. It doesn't currently suport ldap authentication but that is a planned feature. It also supports file version history. Lots of other godd feature like blogs, forums etc.