[dba-VS] Microsoft Action Pack Subscription benefits

[Salakhetdinov Shamil]

 Hi Jim --

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So in summary, you will not have to move to Linux, Linux will move to you. ;-)
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Yes, this is exactly what I meant: why spend time with "pure Linux" when "MS Windows-powered Linux" is being brought to me by MS developers?

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I believe that within ten years, the entire under-pinnings, of Microsoft will be Linux and their product line will be layer designed like Linux.
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It will happen next year with MS Windows vNext, MS Windows Nano-Server, ASP.NET vNext... - all that products are in beta-phase now...

-- Shamil

>Friday, December 18, 2015 12:08 PM -07:00 from Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca>:
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>Hi Shamil:
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>Ha ha ha...
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>You don't have time to learn Linux technology? You are actually learning it anyways; Azure, Nodejs, Docker etc...along with the other open licensed products. The only difference is that you are accessing this technology through a Microsoft GUI...or distro. Canonical (Ubuntu), Redhat, Suse and Apache, to name a few, are under full contract to build Microsoft its new infrastructure.
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>All Microsoft products were built using the "integration" design method while Linux products are built on a "layered" design. That is why Microsoft, at this time, finds it so difficult to migrate their products to different platforms and hardware. It also makes Windows extremely unstable in unstable hardware environments. The Windows OS has to be completely debundled and basically rebuilt from scratch. There is an ongoing project within Microsoft that will allow the Windows core to install on a Raspberry PI but it is not an easy task...
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>Microsoft is not standing still and is quickly moving towards the Linux world. They even have their own, in-shop Linux version distro ( http://bit.ly/1NBTiX7 ). 
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>I spoke to an old friend who is running a development shop, mostly using .Net, Visual Studio on Windows. He remarked, "I am too young for UNIX and too old for Linux so I work with Windows." He says by early in the new year his development team will have more Linux application programmers than Windows.
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>I for one, really like the new direction Microsoft  is going, under Satya Nadella. I believe that within ten years, the entire under-pinnings, of Microsoft will be Linux and their product line will be layer designed like Linux.
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>So in summary, you will not have to move to Linux, Linux will move to you. ;-)
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>Jim 
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