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Microsoft saw Linux as a threat to its growing influence over company data centers - a dominance that made it unloved among the software developer<\/a> community.
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\nIf it wasn't built at Microsoft, the company didn't want any part in it.
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But times change. Under new CEO Satya Nadella<\/a>, Microsoft has embraced Linux and everything it represents, including developer choice. Nadella event went so far as to say \"Microsoft loves Linux\" at a public company event last year.
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\"Part of the new Microsoft is being given the permission to meet customers where they're at,\" Microsoft Azure<\/a> CTO Mark Russinovich says. \"We're no longer bound by an arbitrary rule.\"
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\nAt this week's DockerCon event, Russinovich announced that since this past May, the software giant has been the number one biggest code contributor to Docker, the hot technology that's changing how developers build applications by making it easy to write code once and run it anywhere.
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\nDevelopers love Docker, which makes it a natural fit for the Microsoft Azure cloud. Azure is locked in an arms race with vendors like Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform to become the friendliest plaform for software developers to build their wares.
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\nBut just like Linux, Docker is an open source project, meaning that it has the same kind of active community of developers the world over shepherding its development. In fact, Docker's technology itself is based on a feature that originally came from Linux.
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Microsoft also this week became a founding member of the Open Container Project, a non-profit to build a container standard housed under none other than the Linux Foundation<\/a>. Given the history, it makes it very surprising that Microsoft would give it this kind of love. But for Russinovich, it's all about serving those developers. And to do that, Microsoft wants to contribute and make Docker even better. Part of that is making Docker integrate tightly with the still-formidable Windows Server ecosystem.
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\n\"We love Docker because our customers love Docker,\" Russinovich says. In fact, on stage, Russinovich said that he hasn't had a single customer conversation lately where Docker didn't come up.
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\nIn fact, just to show off the commitment Microsoft has to Docker, Russinovich's DockerCon session included a bit where he built and deployed a simple web application, with parts of the application running on Linux and parts running on Microsoft Windows Server.
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\nIf that's how developers want it done, Russinovich says, that's where Microsoft will go. There's nothing stopping Microsoft from adopting whatever technologies it takes to get developers on board.
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\n\"It's really cool for us to have such a strong relationship [with Docker],\" Russinovich says.
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\nOf course, there's another thing that Docker does: It has the potential to make it easier for developers to move their apps from cloud to cloud, since it makes the underlying infrastructure way less important. But Russinovich isn't worried - it just means that Microsoft has to be the best at helping developers work with containers.
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\n\"It's not like you can stop it,\" Russinovich says on the threat of customers moving away.\n\n<\/body>","next_sibling":[{"msid":47795629,"title":"InMobi names its work culture YaWiO","entity_type":"ARTICLE","link":"\/news\/industry\/inmobi-names-its-work-culture-yawio\/47795629","category_name":null,"category_name_seo":"industry"}],"related_content":[],"msid":47797753,"entity_type":"ARTICLE","title":"The 'arbitrary rule' that was holding Microsoft back","synopsis":"Microsoft saw Linux as a threat to its growing influence over company data centers - a dominance that made it unloved among the software developer community.","titleseo":"industry\/the-arbitrary-rule-that-was-holding-microsoft-back","status":"ACTIVE","authors":[],"Alttitle":{"minfo":""},"artag":"Business Insider","artdate":"2015-06-24 13:24:50","lastupd":"2015-06-24 13:26:13","breadcrumbTags":["industry","Microsoft","Linux","software developer","Satya Nadella","Linux Foundation","Microsoft Azure"],"secinfo":{"seolocation":"industry\/the-arbitrary-rule-that-was-holding-microsoft-back"}}" data-authors="[" "]" data-category-name="Industry" data-category_id="18" data-date="2015-06-24" data-index="article_1">
从前,微软是抵抗而闻名Linux一个免费的操作系统,是由一群爱好者和独立的供应商。
微软认为Linux是一个威胁,其日益增长的影响力公司数据中心——一个主导地位,使它不被爱软件开发人员社区。
如果不是建立在微软,该公司不希望任何部分。
但是时代变了。在新任首席执行官萨提亚Nadella,微软已经接受了Linux和它所代表的一切,包括开发人员选择。Nadella事件甚至说“微软喜欢Linux”去年在一家上市公司活动。
“新微软的一部分被允许的满足客户,他们在“微软Azure首席技术官马克·若斯诺维奇说。“我们不再受任意规则。”
在本周的DockerCon事件,若斯诺维奇宣布自今年5月以来,这家软件巨头第一最大代码贡献者码头工人,改变的热门技术开发人员构建应用程序,使其易于编写代码,运行它。
开发者喜欢码头工人,这使得它适合微软Azure云。Azure是锁定在军备竞赛与供应商像Amazon Web服务和谷歌云平台成为软件开发人员最友好的休息平台来构建自己的产品。
但就像Linux,码头工人是一个开源项目,这意味着它有同样的活跃的社区的世界各地的开发人员引导其发展。事实上,码头工人的技术本身是基于功能,最初来自Linux。
本周微软也成为开放容器项目的创始成员,一个非盈利的建立一个容器标准安置在不是别人Linux基金会。考虑到历史,它很奇怪,微软将把它这样的爱情。但若斯诺维奇,这都是那些开发人员。为此,微软希望做出贡献,使码头工人更好。的一部分,码头工人与骁勇善战的Windows服务器紧密集成的生态系统。
“我们爱码头工人,因为我们的客户爱码头工人,“若斯诺维奇说。事实上,在舞台上,若斯诺维奇说,他还没有一个单一的客户最近的谈话,码头工人没来。
事实上,仅展示微软承诺码头工人,若斯诺维奇的DockerCon会话包括一个位构建和部署一个简单的web应用程序,与部分的应用程序运行在Linux和Microsoft Windows服务器上运行。
如果开发者想要怎么做,若斯诺维奇说,微软将去哪里。没有什么阻止微软采用什么技术需要让开发人员。
“很酷对我们有这样一个强大的关系(与码头工人),“若斯诺维奇说。
当然,还有另一个码头工人:它有可能方便开发者将他们的应用程序从云,云,因为它使底层基础设施的方式不那么重要了。但若斯诺维奇并不担心——这仅仅意味着微软最好的帮助开发人员使用的容器中。
“这不是像你可以阻止它,“若斯诺维奇说客户转移的威胁。
微软认为Linux是一个威胁,其日益增长的影响力公司数据中心——一个主导地位,使它不被爱软件开发人员社区。
如果不是建立在微软,该公司不希望任何部分。
但是时代变了。在新任首席执行官萨提亚Nadella,微软已经接受了Linux和它所代表的一切,包括开发人员选择。Nadella事件甚至说“微软喜欢Linux”去年在一家上市公司活动。
“新微软的一部分被允许的满足客户,他们在“微软Azure首席技术官马克·若斯诺维奇说。“我们不再受任意规则。”
在本周的DockerCon事件,若斯诺维奇宣布自今年5月以来,这家软件巨头第一最大代码贡献者码头工人,改变的热门技术开发人员构建应用程序,使其易于编写代码,运行它。
开发者喜欢码头工人,这使得它适合微软Azure云。Azure是锁定在军备竞赛与供应商像Amazon Web服务和谷歌云平台成为软件开发人员最友好的休息平台来构建自己的产品。
但就像Linux,码头工人是一个开源项目,这意味着它有同样的活跃的社区的世界各地的开发人员引导其发展。事实上,码头工人的技术本身是基于功能,最初来自Linux。
本周微软也成为开放容器项目的创始成员,一个非盈利的建立一个容器标准安置在不是别人Linux基金会。考虑到历史,它很奇怪,微软将把它这样的爱情。但若斯诺维奇,这都是那些开发人员。为此,微软希望做出贡献,使码头工人更好。的一部分,码头工人与骁勇善战的Windows服务器紧密集成的生态系统。
“我们爱码头工人,因为我们的客户爱码头工人,“若斯诺维奇说。事实上,在舞台上,若斯诺维奇说,他还没有一个单一的客户最近的谈话,码头工人没来。
事实上,仅展示微软承诺码头工人,若斯诺维奇的DockerCon会话包括一个位构建和部署一个简单的web应用程序,与部分的应用程序运行在Linux和Microsoft Windows服务器上运行。
如果开发者想要怎么做,若斯诺维奇说,微软将去哪里。没有什么阻止微软采用什么技术需要让开发人员。
“很酷对我们有这样一个强大的关系(与码头工人),“若斯诺维奇说。
当然,还有另一个码头工人:它有可能方便开发者将他们的应用程序从云,云,因为它使底层基础设施的方式不那么重要了。但若斯诺维奇并不担心——这仅仅意味着微软最好的帮助开发人员使用的容器中。
“这不是像你可以阻止它,“若斯诺维奇说客户转移的威胁。
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