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DenisM on July 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: YC startups that are hiring

>If Microsoft did offer something in that arena, I'd expect the licensing costs to be obnoxious.

Nope. First, both AWS and Azure offer Windows hosting. Second, licensing costs on AWS are around 30% markup on top of same Linux hardware. Hardly "obnoxious".

HOLYCOWBATMAN on July 8, 2015 [–]

And .net runs on linux with mono or the new .net core plus its open source.

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