Comments on: Microsoft Azure is The New Outlook

By: SplendidCRM

SplendidCRM — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:21:21 +0000

SplendidCRM is also available for Azure. But as a native C# .NET application, you might be able to leverage SplendidCRM to get a free Azure account when you signup for Microsoft BizSpark.

By: Why Azure Will Fail | _mindMeld

Why Azure Will Fail | _mindMeld — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:04:46 +0000

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By: Jorge Escobar

Jorge Escobar — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:48:51 +0000

“They” aren’t paying me. I’m not blowing a trumpet either.

By: Jorge Escobar

Jorge Escobar — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:48:12 +0000

How many non-developers have head of apt-get. The point I’m trying to make is that this could introduce non-technical users to the power of the cloud, which has been, so far, the realm of developers.

By: Jorge Escobar

Jorge Escobar — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:47:13 +0000

I love koolaid.

By: Jorge Escobar

Jorge Escobar — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:46:51 +0000

Yup, that’s why I wrote this piece as a “what-if” scenario:

“Basically Windows could potentially introduce point-and-click cloud computing for the masses in a way that resembles the iPhone application directory but for web applications, once their Azure cloud service is launched.”

Cheers!

By: Tristan

Tristan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:14:42 +0000

Umm, that email has nothing to do with Azure.

Nothing.

The Web Platform Installer has been around for a long time. All it does is quickly get a DEV IIS up and running with PHP. Which is nice since it means you dont have to have a spare 200x server that you have to be developing on/near.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:58:44 +0000

I herd u liek koolaid?

By: ACoolDude

ACoolDude — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:51:05 +0000

I am not impressed. Since 4 years back you could do apt-get install lamp to install the lamp stack on ubuntu. Or u could do it the point-and-click way in the Synaptic Package Manager

I can’t believe it is 2009 and MS still hasn’t released its cloud computing offering.

By: Alexander Orlov

Alexander Orlov — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:54:03 +0000

Tried to install several apps on my Win7 VM and failed every time.

As nicer approach for me as a Google App Engine developer to run (GAE) web apps locally (if corporate rules require this) is to uses the GAE dev server. The local GAE dev server is fast enough to manage the corporate traffic… How many users use the Employee Self Service app or any other intranet app at the same time? 5?