Microsoft Joins Open Compute Project, Will Share Server Designs 90
1sockchuck writes "Microsoft has joined the Open Compute Project and will be contributing specs and designs for the cloud servers that power Bing, Windows Azure and Office 365. "We came to the conclusion that sharing these hardware innovations will help us accelerate the growth of cloud computing," said Kushagra Vaid, Microsoft's General Manager of Cloud Server Engineering. The company is also releasing its Chassis Manager software that manages its servers, fans and power, which which is now available on GitHub. "We would like to help build an open source software community within OCP as well," said Microsoft's Bill Laing. Microsoft's cloud server hardware is built around a 12U chassis that can house up to 24 server and storage blades, offering a different approach from the current Open Compute server and storage designs."
Which one is this? (Score:5, Insightful)
Embrace, extend or extinguish? Which part are we on now?
Too little, too late (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Apache 2 License? o.o (Score:5, Insightful)
I doubt this is really a Microsoft business decision. It's written by one person, and he is perhaps enthusiastic about open source (PhD student at PSU). His supervisor probably okayed it. Just because some division of MS does that, doesn't mean the top of the hierarchy decided/steered this decision.
An Azure Cloud (Score:4, Insightful)
An Azure Cloud is the suffocating bluish smoke belched out by an engine that is reaching the end of it's useful life.
Microsoft is courting Linux workloads to run on their bluish smoke servers. Why would someone who has a business application that runs on Linux want to trust that to a company that has tried to destroy Linux and open source and is actively continuing to do so to this very day?
Re:Apache 2 License? o.o (Score:4, Insightful)
Sorry but infrastructure management software will not have wide acceptance with a GPL license. It would also not make much headway with MS-PL. If you actually want it to be used then it has to be BSD/Apache.