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Of course, but the question at that point becomes: How do you sustain those steady profits?

DEC was hugely successful in its day, but was a failure in the 90s because they couldn't manage the transition from minicomputers to PCs.



By creating stuff that people find useful.

Also I am less convinced than others that Microsoft is flopping on everything. Azure is certainly a good start for example.


Azure is certainly a good start for example.

Seriously?

Azure is what - 4 years old? It's still yet to see significant adoption outside places that were already .NET/Windows shops.

Until that happens it's little more than another defensive play by Microsoft attempting to protect Windows revenue.

(Yes, I know it can run Linux VMs. Again - is anyone outside .NET shops using it?)


Apple is using Azure for ICloud which is pretty huge. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/is-apple-really-using-wi... The Vanity Fair article is almost identical to the articles released before Windows 7 came out in 2009 predicting the same kind of stuff than never comes true. Windows 8 has the potential to be a huge so I am sure these cookie cutter "MS is doomed" articles are going to be more prevalent as we get closer to release.


there have been folks on the PostgreSQL lists talking about their experience with Azure running Linux/PostgreSQL.


Any links - we had huge perf issues...




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