Microsoft Azure to capture open source revenue streams

“The larger point is if Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, HP, Google,
Cisco, EMC/VMware, Oracle/Sun offer a simple and supported cloud
service for running MySQL, Tomcat, JBoss, Mule or Apache HTTP
instances, what reason do customers have to acquire “enterprise
subscriptions” from the vendors developing these open source
projects? Until now, the value of an open source “enterprise
subscription” has largely been access to support and access to
administration and management tooling. In the case of MySQL, the
former is provided by Amazon RDS and Azure SQL as part of the
per-hour service. Again in the case of MySQL, the latter is
rendered unnecessary or replicated through Amazon RDS and Azure SQL
tool.”

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