Submitted by “As expected, Microsoft has announced the general availability of the Azure platform (Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and AppFabric) in 21 countries. Starting today, Microsoft customers and partners in those regions will be able to launch their Azure production applications and services with the support of the full Service Level Agreements. The Windows Azure platform AppFabric Service Bus and Access Control will continue to be free until April 2010 for those that sign up for a commercial subscription.”
Could please anyone tell me why i want this and not some existing or other promising plattform. I see small to very little benefit in total, but i bet im missing something?
Maybe if i was allready a satisfied CTP customer?
It’s probaply cheapest way to build services using Microsoft tools and technic which many, myself including, find probaply best in industry. They offer very good SLA, something that smaller firms usually don’t. Many of these services(such as rental SQL server) already excists but often need hefty starting payment and don’t scale very well.
If you were being objective, you would do some research and compare price, features, and speed, and then you would pick one based on your needs.
I know that sounds unorthodox, but it seems to work.
Actually it’s not only based on those several factors. Deciding what is best for you is best based on prices, features, speed, scalability requirements, risks, hidden costs and the actual application that is being created. Just creating an application for MS Azure is a dead end. And application has to solve a problem first, then it may be best hosted on Azure.
well, I think the word “needs” took care of scalability requirements, risks, as well as the application being created. I think hidden costs could probably be included in the term “price” But to point that out would probably be just semantics 😉 Oh, wait, you seem to already know what that term means.
Oh, and just creating and application using Azure is a dead end? why is that? Because you say so?
No… Because applications are there to solve problems. Otherwise they are just tech demo’s.
You can keep repeating that, but that doesn’t make it true
Azure concept, though now unique, is great for customers and small companies. I suggest everyone to give it a try because, as usual, Microsoft didn’t only move its stuff to an hosted platform but is has developed a specialized platform for cloud. As a developer, it’s lovely.
That said, I think Azure is a problem for partners, for example for my company. Microsoft is playing dirty with us and it’s not a good thing. Sure, they will get more margins with Azure but they will loose some from partners like us who will find a different breathing space and different mixes&matches. Time will tell if MS was sly to compete with its own partners or not…