That's becoming less of an issue. You can now create your own local server and app images and upload them to Azure to run in a VM of your creation. Eliminates the compatibility issues.
Sent from my Surface Pro 3 From: J- P Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 6:49 PM To: '[email protected]' At one non-profit I work for , when upgrading/updating to latest accounting application version , the salesperson himself said "based on the amount of modules you use, you would be wise to host in on premise" Jean-Paul Natola > Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 14:23:53 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] I'm sure you've heard already... > > I still have a fair bit of line of business apps that aren't in the > cloud (granted that's a yet) and if that vendor moves to the cloud it's > highly unlikely to be in Microsoft's cloud. > > Meanwhile back at the cloud we pick really sucky passwords and we are > not solving the access problems of divergent cloud vendors. > > Small businesses that are just starting out may be more Google apps > ready than Microsoft cloud ready. > > > Susan Bradley > Meet up with me, Amy, Philip and Jeremy at the Brain Explosion in Florida > this September. I'll be talking about protecting your network > http://www.thirdtier.net/brain-explosion/ > > On 7/22/2014 2:16 PM, Rod Trent wrote: > > The Cloud is all about small business - at least from Microsoft's > > perspective. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley > > Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 5:07 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] I'm sure you've heard already... > > > > Any word on Convergence (Dynamics/CRM conference)? > > > > (and as a small business, and I know that Teched never focused on small > > business, but the total "for enterprise" focus makes me want to remind > > Microsoft that they too were a small business at one time) > > > > > > Susan Bradley > > Meet up with me, Amy, Philip and Jeremy at the Brain Explosion in Florida > > this September. I'll be talking about protecting your network > > http://www.thirdtier.net/brain-explosion/ > > > > On 7/22/2014 1:57 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > >> It’s been yelled about, cursed, discussed, and hammered to death in > >> various private forums, before it was ever announced publicly. > >> > >> The MVPs (Lync, Exchange, SharePoint, Office, I can’t speak for any of > >> the rest) hate it. > >> > >> Rod can tell us for certain, but I’m pretty sure the System Center > >> folks hate it too (they had MMS). > >> > >> *From:*[email protected] > >> [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *William Robbins > >> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 22, 2014 4:50 PM > >> *To:* [email protected] > >> *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] I'm sure you've heard already... > >> > >> I'm kind of surprised this topic has laid here quietly this long. > >> I've never been able to go to any of the (now cancelled) conferences > >> for one reason or the other, but I always had the impression they were > >> considered a rather big deal by IT folk that attended. > >> > >> > >> > >> - WJR > >> See-no-evil monkey Hear-no-evil monkey Speak-no-evil monkey > >> > >> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Rod Trent <[email protected] > >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> > >> …but, TechEd, MEC, and all other events are being replaced. > >> > >> http://windowsitpro.com/cloud/teched-dead-long-live > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
