Comments on: Ozzie, Muglia, and Srivastava on Windows Azure: Video

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Azure Services Platform « palmit.commentary — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:01:13 +0000

[...] Sources:Azure Services Platform David Aiken on AzureWikipedia – Azure Services PlatformTechCrunchIT – Azure: Video [...]

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By: Windows Azure - missing from the blogsphere? « ITasITis

Windows Azure - missing from the blogsphere? « ITasITis — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:46:46 +0000

[...] • Microsoft Azure website • 3Tera • Ozzie, Muglia, and Srivastava on Windows Azure TechCrunch, 27 Oct 2008 (there’s a video embedded in this report) • Microsoft Unveils [...]

By: scott

scott — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:14:53 +0000

I prefer AWS to GAE.

Language support is not the issue regarding lock-in. It is the tools and APIs that are designed to make moving your code to another environment difficult. Microsoft will make it very easy to build apps on their terms.

By: scott

scott — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:10:47 +0000

I did not say this.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:24:21 +0000

Per Jonathan, whats the cross platform support b/n Google & Amazon? Google only supports Python BTW, Azure will support PHP, Python and Ruby plus C# , eclipse. It’s so much more robust than anything Google is doing.

By: Jonathan Wong

Jonathan Wong — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:57:20 +0000

You mean it’s easy today to port between Google App Engine and Amazon Web Services?

By: Marc: My Words : Links on Azure

Marc: My Words : Links on Azure — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:07:27 +0000

[...] TechCrunch video with Ray Ozzie, Bob Muglia and Amitabh Srivastava [...]

By: Con Azure arriva il momento di Ozzie - The Inquirer IT

Con Azure arriva il momento di Ozzie - The Inquirer IT — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:01:18 +0000

[...] forse anche prima, visto che Ozzie in un incontro informale con alcuni blogger ha preannunciato per oggi (stasera per gli italiani), grosse “sorprese” nell’area Office e di [...]

By: Ray Ozzie opens up: our informal meetup with Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect | MS Tech News

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:22:35 +0000

[...] Steve Gillmor has more on TechCrunchIT, shot on his iPhone running Qik, a la Robert Scoble. [...]

By: scott

scott — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:43:46 +0000

It does not look like developers will be able to easily port their Azure services to Google App Engine or Amazon EC2 unless developers avoid using any of the Azure infrastructure. No surprise. Microsoft is not obligated to make it easy to compete with them. And Microsoft will continue to use their tools and APIs for locking developers into the visual cloud development environment. You don’t have to use their tools but I can’t imagine Eclipse becoming a first class development environment for Azure.

Is it true that 3rd party services built on Azure will not be portable to Microsoft’s enterprise level infrastructure as there will be only one Azure and only infrastructure components will be shared? Developers that do not trust Microsoft are going to see the writing on the walls. The enterprise infrastructure will provide comprehensive support for consuming Azure services while 3rd party service providers won’t be able to effectively compete with Azure services provided by Microsoft.

I thought Ray did a poor job in side stepping the requests for information on useful applications that might take advantage of the abstractions provided by Azure and Live Mesh. I suspect no compelling explanation exists.

By: rivari

rivari — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:02:23 +0000

TY, your blog make a better job explaining what Windows Azure is.
As for now, I still not sure that Azure will be a new operating system. I suspect that Azure may stand as a marketing term for virtualized-Windows-Server-OS-running-on-Datacenter with all Microsoft web technology available to developers.
Wait and see.

By: guest

guest — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:06:12 +0000

Ballmer is the CEO. CEOs don’t usually, not always, get into explaining details of the technical roadmap of a company. That is why they are hired Ray and have Muglia, it is sort their job. :-)

By: Jonathan Kupferman

Jonathan Kupferman — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:52:54 +0000

@Public*Relations - They sent Ray Ozzie to present it seeing as how he is the Chief Software Architect at Microsoft and the conference is for Developers. Realistically Azure is much more of a competitor to Google App Engine then it is to Amazon EC2. Both Google App Engine and Azure provide Platform level services which is a much higher level then what Amazon provides with EC2. People continue to play up with Azure vs EC2 angle but realistically they have Windows on EC2 which helps Microsoft in the short term until they can figure out a way to go after that corner of the market. I talked about the whole Azure project here On my blog

By: Marcio Castilho

Marcio Castilho — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:27:36 +0000

You can find more info related to Azure on http://www.azurejournal.com

-Marcio

By: Public*Relations

Public*Relations — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:46:06 +0000

Where is Steve Balmer in all of this.

Could there be internal tensions with this new direction?