OpenLogic Backs CentOS Linux on Azure With SLA

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OpenLogic announced on Thursday that it will provide CentOS Linux — and service-level agreement (SLA) support — through Microsoft’s new Windows Azure gallery. The company said it retains leading open source developers for commercial-grade support “for more than 600 open source projects, including Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, JBoss, Hibernate, and ActiveMQ.” It offers one-number support to resolve any issues. Microsoft’s Helene Love Snell said in a statement: “OpenLogic has supported CentOS for several years, and we look forward to making their expertise and SLA support available to customers through the Windows Azure Marketplace.” OpenLogic’s Steven Grandchamp writes in a blog post that for “enterprise developers and IT folks who are multi-source and multi-platform, today’s announcement is good news. The Windows and Linux worlds take one step towards each other.” However, Grandchamp notes that despite Microsoft “maturing its views on open source” with “significant work” with Node.js, Hadoop, and Samba, the open source community “will meet [Linux on Azure] with overall wariness and skepticism.” (See related: Windows Azure: Misunderstood or Misguided?) “For me, it’s part of a larger overall process that continues to signal open source coming of age.

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