Microsoft and Red Hat announce partnership

The partnership we are announcing today with Red Hat extends our commitment to offer unmatched choice and flexibility in an enterprise-grade cloud experience across the hybrid cloud. With more than 80 percent of the Fortune 500 using Microsoftis cloud, for us to team with the leader in enterprise Linux allows even more businesses to move to the cloud on their terms. By working with Red Hat, we will address common enterprise, ISV and developer needs for building, deploying and managing applications on Red Hat software across private and public clouds, including the following.Only fourteen short years ago:Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.What a time to be alive.