Microsoft is pitching the event as a way to network and learn “business-building best practices” and gain expertise in Microsoft products. CEO Satya Nadella, champion of the new, open Microsoft, is scheduled to speak about "his vision for our joint success in a mobile-first, cloud-first world." The Azure cloud, that is.
Microsoft's Azure cloud service competes with similar offerings from Amazon and Google. Microsoft Dynamics elbows for market share with Salesforce.com's Force.com, and Microsoft is taking on VMware with its Hyper-V virtualization platform.
But Microsoft is still being curiously selective. It hasn't, to the best of our knowledge, issued "please stay away" notices to Apple, Oracle, Citrix or Red Hat, all of whom offer alternatives to Microsoft products and services. Microsoft's business software likewise competes with offerings from SAP, although to be fair, the companies have also worked together in other respects for some time.
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