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Microsoft Says 40 Percent of All VMs in Azure Run Linux

posted by martyb on Saturday November 04 2017, @07:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the how-many-are-running-BSD? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Is this a real representation of how many computers run Linux vs. Microsoft now?

Microsoft Developer @msdevUK: Did you know that 40% of #VirtualMachines in #Azure are running #Linux? #FutureDecoded #Dev

That stat is courtesy of a tweet on Oct. 31 from the Microsoft Developer UK account. The tweet, hashtagged as #FutureDecoded, seemingly is connected to information that Microsoft officials shared at the company's conference in London today.

Community Manager Brian Byrne (@BrianLinuxing) retweeted the Microsoft Developer UK tweet, adding: "Only 40%? Come on! Its more than that:)."

Previously, the most recent stat on how many VMs in Azure are running Linux dates back to June 2016, when Microsoft officials said nearly one in three Azure virtual machines were running Linux.

Or are companies and developers using Azure to test the Linux waters?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @08:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @08:30PM (#592645)

    I wonder how much of the problem is just NTFS? Work switched me from a Linux laptop to a Windows one, and the difference between NTFS and ext4 is astonishing. Powershell and Cygwin can't do mass file operations, full text searches, or anything similar at anywhere near the speed of my old machine. And of course the newer machine has a faster processor, faster SSD, etc... etc... btrfs running on spinning platter drives on my personal desktop is faster at all file operations than NTFS on an SSD. It's shocking.

    That filesystem difference has to translate into differences between web servers, databases, and anything else that hits the filesystem, right?