Comment by bzmrgonz
16 hours ago
Someone ask Microsoft what does it feel to be bested by an open source project on their very own cloud platform!!! Lol.
16 hours ago
Someone ask Microsoft what does it feel to be bested by an open source project on their very own cloud platform!!! Lol.
They don't care. Azure has a revenue higher than GCP, losing only to AWS. It's Microsoft's new baby, and they love it, no matter what you want to run there. Also, they're still the 4th largest company by market cap.
Honestly, only us nerds in Hacker News care about this kind of stuff :) (and that's why I love it here).
edit: also, the article cites OpenAI did adopt Azure Cosmos DB for new stuff they want to shard. Still shows how far you can take PostgreSQL though.
That ship sailed a long time ago, as Microsoft has offered Linux VMs in Azure for 14 years, and today, about 2/3 of VMs running there are Linux. In the public cloud era, owning the infrastructure and customer base is far more important than licenses.
And the same for Linux boxes on Azure - they dominate Windows servers by a huge margin.
Are you saying this because OpenAI didnt choose SQL Server?
In 2026 is SQL Server ever the answer?
My sentiments exactly. Anyone at the low side of scale thinking about MS SQL, should seriously do a current survey of things in the dbms space.. there is absolutely no NEED to pay for dbms in 2026. Those old dinosours only still exist, because of the data hijacking nature of past db designs and coding. Everybody and their grandmother were obfuscating code and designs in order to bake in customer loyalty and repetitive patronage. Those old projects are keeping the lights on at proprietary DB Inc. AT the high end of things, you're gonna need db engineers, and if you get yourself Microsoftie hammersharks disguised as professional engineers, they gonna see everything as a nail.
It really is a good database. Give it lots of room. If you can distribute your workload on multiple machines though, you can't beat Postgres' licencing terms vs SQL Server.
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That’s kind of my point. They’re not really in competition. I bet they’d have an easier time with this scale if they were on SQL Server, but obviously that migration isn’t happening and startups don’t reach for it for many reasons.
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Azure offers Postgres “DBaaS”, so I’m pretty sure they are no where near that stage. It’s more likely that we should watch out for the Microsoft E-E-E strategy.
Amen to that.. those tripple-E bastards are likely to use that playbook again. Best advise is to seek fertile grounds where freedom grows. I can't wait for Europe's cloud offering, I believe they're gonna serve as the middle ground between greedy tech-bros and china's fake free as in free beer products. Pack up your bags IT HOBBITS, we're moving to middle earth.