Microsoft Azure continues open source love affair
Microsoft has been aggressive in embracing open source technology on its Azure cloud platform, and that continued Wednesday with the launch of several new features powered by open source projects.
Following its earlier announcement of a partnership with Red Hat, Microsoft added Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 6.7 and 7.2 to the Azure Marketplace. That means developers who want to use the popular operating system now have an easy and Microsoft-approved path to get it running on Azure.
A majority of Azure Marketplace workloads are Linux-based, which is an interesting position for Microsoft's cloud platform, considering the company's previously dim view of the open source OS.
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