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Trying to pull us over onto the cloud?!
I trust Winblows (as well as Macinsuck/Apple) as far as Obunghole can throw Thunderthighs Cankle Clinton... :p
Linux is far more effective than Windows on servers. Systems like Windows are 90% user interface and 10% OS.
I recently installed the latest Ubuntu server on a 15-year-old computer that originally came with Win 2K. It runs perfectly, with very low CPU and memory usage at idle.
Getting “into” a cloud platform is relatively easy. Getting your data out of a cloud for use back at the homebase datacenter is another can of worms entirely.
RedHat better watch out. They make a fine product but don’t seem as nimble as Canonical or even Oracle (Oracle is crushing Redhat on lic costs for their linux offering; they have a nice script that will re-brand your RHEL install to OEL in as little as 10-15 minutes).
I see this choice as more of a play at stomping on RedHat while embracing linux.
I’m not liking this cozying up between MS and Canonical. Looks like I’ve got an ubuntu -> debian move in my future.
The Cloud (and Linux in the Cloud) is here to stay despite what various naysayers say. Sure keep your photos, videos, songs, spreadsheets and what have you on your home servers. Back them up 2x, 3x to other servers, portable disks. Knock yourselves out.
But the Cloud is here to stay for industrial strength applications. Hadoop being one of them but by no means certainly not the only one. You can also reject gmail, facebook, twitter, dropbox, pinterest and on and on - chances are you’re using the cloud in one way or another and just not knowing it.