Microsoft to run Linux on Azure

[jamrock]

IDG News Service - After years of battling Linux as a competitive threat, Microsoft is now offering Linux-based operating systems on its Windows Azure cloud service.

The Linux services will go live on Azure at 4 a.m. EDT on Thursday. At that time, the Azure portal will offer a number of Linux distributions, including Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2, OpenSuse 12.01, CentOS 6.2 and Canonical Ubuntu 12.04. Azure users will be able to choose and deploy a Linux distribution from the Microsoft Windows Azure Image Gallery and be charged on an hourly pay-as-you-go basis.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...Linux_on_Azure

Could this really be true?

[psilos]

Of course its true. They are one of the top ten corporate contributors to the Linux kernel. Why? Just to get drivers for Hyper-V into the mainline kernel. They have realised that enterprises usually have a mix of Windows and Linux so they have stopped fighting and are just working with it. Linux now works fine inside of Hyper-V so I am not surprised that is running in Azure. Expect to see Hadoop, MySQL and whatever else running in Azure as well.

[duster]

Linux is a fast car. Microsoft wants it on its race track and within its boundaries!!

[Gillion]

If you can't kill the penguins ... join them.