White Paper | The Economics of the Cloud: ‘Cloud 9’ for the CFO?
One sheet by the numbers
1. Openness by the numbers
Microsoft has changed. But instead of telling you,
we’d rather let the numbers speak for themselves.
Broadest developer ecosystem in the world, enabled by standards
1.3B 120 640,000
$609 billion:
revenue Microsoft 670M+ 73%
servers shipped
with Windows
Windows Windows Store markets ecosystem has
systems open to all developers partners globally collectively generated copies sold
Investing in standards
9
In demand
150 +
standards organizations
400
working groups
+ 9 of the top 10 downloaded
OSS projects run on Windows.
of 10
Open in the cloud
Windows Azure’s flexible environment supports developer choice.
Drupal PHP 1 billion
MongoDB Hadoop
customers rely on Microsoft’s
.Net cloud infrastructure annually.
Java Node.js
Open source resources Open source community
We’re making it easier to create and share In just two years, membership has tripled on CodePlex,
open source projects. Microsoft’s free open source project hosting site.
900,000+
300,000
32,000+ projects 2010 2012
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Information is accurate as of 12/2012
