One of my customers has just signed up to move their users to Microsoft Office 365. About 30,000 people switching to the cloud. MS can do this sort of thing, switch on people by the millions onto their cloud offering. As Minerpage said, that's a lot of eyeballs looking at SPR, which is why Azure vet who goes on their platform as a recommended offering.
Does this mean we become centralized? Are you going to change the principle of one IP for every servicenode?
My best guess is that Azure will end up being too costly for servicenode operators. There are plenty of low cost cloud offerings out there that will be cheaper.
I see where you are coming from, and I understand all the motivations, calculations and goals involved. They make very much sense and fit in our plans.
What I don't understand is why spreadcoin needs to make such a move "as a whole entity" to make this happen.
Is this an actual condition requested by microsoft? That lead devs need to follow suit?
We are just a bunch of decentralized nodes.
And again, I have no problem whatsoever if some of those nodes decide they want to partner with microsoft.
So, go ahead!
I hope it's that easy!
You can even openly advertize that
some of us are in fact "partnering" with microsoft. I have no problem with that.