Microsoft Azure embraces outside technologies

April 4, 2014 Off By David

Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Joab Jackson.

As it rolled out tools and features for coders at its Build developer conference Thursday, Microsoft showed that it is ready to embrace technologies and platforms not invented within its walls. Rather than relying solely on internal tools, the Azure cloud services platform has incorporated a number of non-Microsoft technologies, including popular open source tools such as the Chef and Puppet configuration management software, the OAuth authorization standard, and the Hadoop data processing platform.

The company has also taken steps to incorporate open source into its product roadmaps, by releasing the code for its new compiler and setting up a foundation for managing open source .Net projects. "Clearly Microsoft’s message is its support of multi-platform. It will take any part of your stack, it doesn’t have to be just Microsoft software," said Al Hilwa, IDC research program director for software development. "This is good for Microsoft and good for the ecosystem."…

Microsoft’s Azure strategy is to "enable developers to use the best of Windows ecosystem and the best of the Linux ecosystem together … and one that enables you to build great applications and services that work on every device," Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s new executive vice president overseeing the cloud and enterprise group, told the audience of developers and IT professionals…

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