Reply to post: Opinions and the situation on the ground

Get over it: Microsoft is a Linux and open source company these days

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Opinions and the situation on the ground

Our customer base consists of a few dozen small to mid sized companies with 50-500 employees.

They are all moving to Azure as if there is no end to it.

Even when Azure fees increase monthly expenditures on ICT by a factor of three, it doesn't matter.

Maybe there is a problem in the way companies are valued within the financial reporting guidelines, when a company starts using Azure instead of on-prem, it is financially equivalent to taking on a big debt. Defaulting on Azure payments is the end of the company, but bookkeeping rules do not count this type of obligations as debts. It is weird that accounting rules value investments on assets like on-prem IT infrastructure lower than payments on implicit debts incurred by moving to the cloud.

The transition towards subscription based IT spending reduces the incentive to use Linux and save costs on licenses.

Strange accounting rules do not reward savings on licenses, which are still substantial for MS servers, the Azure business of MS massively profits from this situation.

OSS support of MS is mainly marketing, they do not promote Linux based products like SQL-Server on Linux to existing windows only shops. They do not contribute much to OSS either, they make MS-Word for BSD-Unix based iOS, but do not sell it for Linux.

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