Re: Any workload (but office-related) is necessary slower on Azure.
Oh dear.
Do you remember a couple of years back when the Reg's cluster of fanboys had apoplexy about MS making their own linux distro? It was never distributed because it was for Azure. SQL Server runs on linux - don't believe me? sudo apt-get install mssqlserver - and Azure SQL is a weird free-floaty kind of cloud powered distributed version that runs on all kinds of metal. Not to mention that, much like any major RDBMS, SQL Server is pretty much 90% of an OS all on its own.
Yes, if you installed it on a VM running Windows 2000 with antivirus and the Ask Jeeves toolbar, it would be slow. But that's not where it is.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
