Microsoft needs Linux so it can be on the forefront of software defined networking

What a week! #Microsoft announced #SQL Server will be ported to #Linux by mid-2017, #Telstra and #Cisco have promised aredefined customer experience with #softwaredefinednetworking and now #Microsoft again has come out that it, also, will make available software defined networking with Debian Linux as the base.

There are two big things here: Microsoft embracing Linux in big ways, and software defined networking (SDN) itself.

SDN is potentially huge; it is the last vestige of locked-in proprietary, heavily-contracted components in the IT stack. Just as desktops have transformed to mobile devices, just as applications have become SaaS, just as server farms have become cloud farms, so too the network needs to evolve.

http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/the-linux-distillery/71829-microsoft-needs-linux-to-be-on-the-forefront-of-software-defined-networking.html