Dmitry Smirnov dijo [Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 01:41:40PM +1000]: > Hi everyone, > > I'm struggling to convince a client of mine to use Debian. They already had > enough troubles with RHEL/CentOS to they are open to the idea -- that's a > good thing. The bad thing is that they want to use Microsoft Azure (please > don't ask me why people in the right mind would ever consider using > proprietary cloud from one of the most unethical companies ever known in the > IT industry). > > I found it very disappointing that I had to defend Debian against Ubuntu > which is stealing our audience by somehow arranging more favourable hosting > conditions on Azure. I'm not talking about availability of OS images. > According to "Information for Non-Endorsed Distributions" [1] > > "The Azure platform SLA applies to virtual machines running the Linux OS > only when one of the endorsed distributions [2] is used". > (...)
Hi, I'm bringing this discussion to José Miguel Parrella "bureado", who besides being a Debian Developer works as "Open Source Strategist for Emerging Markets in Latin America" in Microsoft. I know there have been many interesting answers to your question, but I'm sure he will have some further insight.
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