Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux advocacy (was: Re: Anybody Using IPv6?) Date: 19 May 2025 07:24:23 GMT Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <100c46e$3c1el$1@news1.tnib.de> <100ei6c$3hmb9$1@news1.tnib.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net zirCz/+moFAhC0bMKWzcowKSg1/Of8T3LtYmM6FwNDydBuq+If Cancel-Lock: sha1:y6Xvum5bWrZtrYfXbO0wSk8x0GM= sha256:NgclIusBZ2/7/VpMHp2+h/YhsXQP2u8sT2CT8O6E2/M= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:67572 On Mon, 19 May 2025 08:13:31 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > rbowman wrote: >>On Sun, 18 May 2025 10:02:22 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> >>> Servers? The market is led by Unixoid systems. The vast majority of >>> existing cloud systems runs GNU/Linux. >> >>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_Linux >> >>If you look at AWS Linux becomes very attractive. A Windows Server >>instance is much more expensive than any of the Linux flavors. > > Thanks for proving my point. > >>Call it what you will but for some strange reason Windows Server is >>cheaper on Azure. > > Might be because Azure's owner doesn't have to pay for Windows licenses? > > Greetings Marc The full name is Microsoft Azure so that is a distinct possibility. https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/microsoft-partners-responding-to- competitors-complaints-of-new-license-transfer-policy-say-all-s-fair-in- cloud-wars Technically, they offer discounts on their software in the Azure cloud. The Amazon and Google clouds pay the full price.