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Days after the announcement of antitrust suit against Facebook, existing champions within the technology sector jump into the arena with a groundbreaking allian
by n-exploit 7y ago
Days after the announcement of antitrust suit against Facebook, existing champions within the technology sector jump into the arena with a groundbreaking alliance.
Unprecedented industry collaboration or an overlooked antitrust risk?
What could come out of a partnership between the largest enterprise software company and the largest consumer software company?
- derefr 7y agoNitpick: at this point, Microsoft is also an enterprise software (and services) company. What software are they making for consumers? Windows exists as the client to lure enterprises into Azure; Office is a subscription that only makes back its development costs from volume subscriptions. (You could say the operating system of the Xbox—but they’re not selling that. It’s a free complement to a consumer hardware play, just like any of Apple’s OSes are.)
- triplee 7y agoThis! Windows got split up internally under Nadella into Azure and Office groups. If anything, a lot of this means they're also boosting Azure even more by doing the same thing with their enterprise database areas. This is a boon for any organizations stuck in Oracle data land that haven't gotten heavily into cloud yet or are unsure about jumping to Azure. Now moving to Azure doesn't just mean sticking with the SQL Server landscape, and possibly also means you can get some analytical and data replication stuff tied into Azure Data Factory, CosmoDB, etc. a little more cleanly. Amazon has a tool to migrate or duplicate from Oracle to RDS, but with Azure you can just be cloud native! (Not sure it will work that well, but could be a selling point).