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bzmrgonz | 1 month ago

Someone ask Microsoft what does it feel to be bested by an open source project on their very own cloud platform!!! Lol.

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doodlesdev|1 month ago

They don't care. Azure has a revenue higher than GCP, losing only to AWS. It's Microsoft's new baby, and they love it, no matter what you want to run there. Also, they're still the 4th largest company by market cap.

Honestly, only us nerds in Hacker News care about this kind of stuff :) (and that's why I love it here).

edit: also, the article cites OpenAI did adopt Azure Cosmos DB for new stuff they want to shard. Still shows how far you can take PostgreSQL though.

bdcravens|1 month ago

That ship sailed a long time ago, as Microsoft has offered Linux VMs in Azure for 14 years, and today, about 2/3 of VMs running there are Linux. In the public cloud era, owning the infrastructure and customer base is far more important than licenses.

DLA|1 month ago

And the same for Linux boxes on Azure - they dominate Windows servers by a huge margin.

beoberha|1 month ago

Are you saying this because OpenAI didnt choose SQL Server?

csto12|1 month ago

In 2026 is SQL Server ever the answer?

esjeon|1 month ago

Azure offers Postgres “DBaaS”, so I’m pretty sure they are no where near that stage. It’s more likely that we should watch out for the Microsoft E-E-E strategy.

bzmrgonz|1 month ago

Amen to that.. those tripple-E bastards are likely to use that playbook again. Best advise is to seek fertile grounds where freedom grows. I can't wait for Europe's cloud offering, I believe they're gonna serve as the middle ground between greedy tech-bros and china's fake free as in free beer products. Pack up your bags IT HOBBITS, we're moving to middle earth.