They don't care. Azure has a revenue higher than GCP, losing only to AWS. It's Microsoft's new baby, and they love it, no matter what you want to run there. Also, they're still the 4th largest company by market cap.

Honestly, only us nerds in Hacker News care about this kind of stuff :) (and that's why I love it here).

edit: also, the article cites OpenAI did adopt Azure Cosmos DB for new stuff they want to shard. Still shows how far you can take PostgreSQL though.

That ship sailed a long time ago, as Microsoft has offered Linux VMs in Azure for 14 years, and today, about 2/3 of VMs running there are Linux. In the public cloud era, owning the infrastructure and customer base is far more important than licenses.

Are you saying this because OpenAI didnt choose SQL Server?

And the same for Linux boxes on Azure - they dominate Windows servers by a huge margin.

Azure offers Postgres “DBaaS”, so I’m pretty sure they are no where near that stage. It’s more likely that we should watch out for the Microsoft E-E-E strategy.