{"id":14590,"date":"2016-05-20T10:49:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T14:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=14590"},"modified":"2016-05-20T10:49:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T14:49:43","slug":"separate-support-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/20\/separate-support-serve\/","title":{"rendered":"Separate, Support, Serve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitquabit.com\/post\/separate-support-serve\/\">Benjamin Pollack<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/bitquabit.com\/post\/separate-support-serve\/\">\n<p>I want to do two things in this blog post: convince you that <em>Embrace, Extend, Extinguish<\/em> is a grossly invalid understanding of Microsoft&rsquo;s strategy; and convince you that an alternative strategy of <em>Separate, Support, Serve<\/em> provides a much better lens to view the modern Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>First, Microsoft has to enable me to even use Microsoft technology in the first place. If Microsoft keeps tying all Microsoft technology to Windows, then they lose. If I have to use Windows to use SQL Server, then I&rsquo;ll go with PostgreSQL. If I have to use Windows to have a sane .NET server environment, then I&rsquo;ll pick Java. To fix that, Microsoft needs to let me make those decisions separately.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s indeed the first phase of their strategy: separating Windows from the rest of their technologies. SQL Server is available on Linux not to encourage lock-in, but because they need you to be able to chose SQL Server even though you&rsquo;ve got a Docker-based deployment infrastructure running on RedHat. .NET is getting great runtimes and development environments (Visual Studio Code) for Unix so that I can more reasonably look at Azure&rsquo;s .NET offerings without also forcing my entire dev team to work on Windows. This strategy dramatically increases the chance of me paying Microsoft money, even though it won&rsquo;t increase the chance I&rsquo;ll use Windows.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Pollack: I want to do two things in this blog post: convince you that Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is a grossly invalid understanding of Microsoft&rsquo;s strategy; and convince you that an alternative strategy of Separate, Support, Serve provides a much better lens to view the modern Microsoft. [&#8230;] First, Microsoft has to enable me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,295,448,37,219],"class_list":["post-14590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-business","tag-history","tag-linux","tag-microsoft","tag-windows"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14592,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14590\/revisions\/14592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}