Microsoft Announces That the First Azure Hosted Service Runs on Ubuntu Linux | Linux Today

Microsoft Announces That the First Azure Hosted Service Runs on Ubuntu Linux

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Marius Nestor
Feb 19, 2015

Canonical, through John Zannos, VP Cloud Alliances, has proudly announced today, February 19, that the first ever Microsoft Azure hosted service will run on Linux, Ubuntu more specifically. This piece of news comes hot from the Strata + Hadoop World Conference, which takes place this week in California, USA.

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