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Microsoft Chooses Ubuntu for Their Linux-Based Azure HDInsight Offering

Canonical’s John Zannos dropped the news earlier today to inform us all that the Redmond company revealed the fact that starting today, September 28, their Azure HDInsight, an Apache Hadoop-based hosted service, will be powered by the Ubuntu Linux operating system and the Hortonworks Data Platform.

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