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Max Hyre writes:

The Register [theregister.co.uk] has a story [theregister.co.uk] about Microsoft adding a Debian-based networking distro named Sonic (aka Software for Open Networking in the Cloud) to its release of SQL Server for Linux [theregister.co.uk]. El Reg says MS wants to have a white-box networking offering, one that will run on pretty much any switching hardware you’ve got that answers to the Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) they gave to the Open Computer Project last year. To show how official, Azure’s CTO has blogged about it. [microsoft.com]

Would someone please check the current weather in Hades?

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