Comments on: WordPress and Microsoft Azure

By: Doug Stewart

Doug Stewart — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:15:41 +0000

I was about to post something when Viper007Bond threw the following over the Twitter Transom

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/ozzie/2009/11-17PDC.mspx

That’s the transcript from the PDC remarks — Matt’s comments are about 1/3 of the way down.

By: James

James — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:42:29 +0000

Well they are obviously in conflict… my question would be where’s the announcement / news from Automattic?

By: Doug Stewart

Doug Stewart — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:39:26 +0000

(That quote is from this eWeek article...)

By: James

James — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:36:23 +0000

What’s this bit then:

“to talk about why he chose to use Azure for distributed hosting for WordPress and the millions of blogs its customers have online.”

(from daily finance)

By: Doug Stewart

Doug Stewart — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:34:30 +0000

Duncan Riley misread the situation. They (Automattic) are moving/starting a single site on Azure:

For example, Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg said his company is launching a site called OddlySpecific.com that runs on SQL Azure. That Microsoft would trumpet the existence of a customer so early on in Azure’s young career is not big news, but Automattic makes WordPress, a blogging platform based on open-source tools.

They’re not moving WP.com to Azure.

By: FAIL

FAIL — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:41:18 +0000

I literally just threw up a little in my mouth.

The biggest winner today, by far, is Microsoft. (threw up a little again).

Now I feel like Automattic, being a for profit company, has an exit strategy. If they price is right, I bet the shareholders would sell to M$. MS would support WordPress for about a year. All the time they need to convert as many ppl as they can over to M$’s Oxite.

Wow. I don’t blame Matt for this epic fail as much as I blame the Board of Directors @ Automattic. They’re the ones who run the money show. Matt is merely their puppet with an expense acct.

GJ Matt. You get to keep your salary a little while longer. Don’t worry, your next job as “Evangelist” for MS’s .asp blog platform will make you the laughing stock of digerati and dumbasses alike.

Even though Microsoft is going to B2 your ass, the WordPress community will live on.

So sad that all of Automattic’s VIP clients are going back to the same place where they started (before wordpress); Microsoft.

By: wp + microsoft = wp hypocrisy - WordPress Tavern Forum

wp + microsoft = wp hypocrisy - WordPress Tavern Forum — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:56:01 +0000

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By: James

James — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:46:42 +0000

Definitely a win for MS, absolutely no doubt about that… what about ‘mattic tho?

By: SEO Wrangler

SEO Wrangler — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:45:37 +0000

I think this is a real coup for Microsoft. I have been on many a research panel sponsored by Microsoft as they try to figure out how to woo Open Source hosting providers to the Microsoft platform.

The fact that MIcrosoft deveoped an “open platform” that supports MIcrosoft and not Microsoft software does not surprise me in the least. It does support PHP, XML, SOAP and so on.

They offer a hybrid cloud solution, which makes it one step removed from, ” I switched to Microsoft OS”. Smart