Last June, when #Microsoft announced its $26.2 billion plan to buy social network provider #LinkedIn, most attention focused on the rich purchase price and how Microsoft could take advantage of all that LinkedIn user data. But other intriguing questions remain about the deal completed in December. First is whether Microsoft (MSFT, +0.28%) and LinkedIn will eventually converge their computing infrastructures. Microsoft, after all, is building #Azure as a competitor to Amazon Web Services, which leads the market in providing shared computing infrastructure to businesses. Toward that end, Microsoft, like #Amazon (AMZN, +2.26%), is aggressively recruiting third-party software companies to use its cloud data centers instead of (or in addition to) their own facilities. LinkedIn, not to put too fine a point on it, is (or was) a large third-party software company running its own data center facilities.
http://fortune.com/2017/03/29/microsoft-linkedin-cloud-data-center/
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