![]() It's worth noting that a significant number and likely the majority of banks are no longer running their own IT operations but have them run, often on foreign hardware, by external datacenter operators, so the cloud concept is not foreign to them. It is also true that many customers are reluctant about public cloud systems for a variety of reasons (often of regulatory nature) and for those we have a subset of the key Windows Azure services available for the datacenter in the form of the Windows Azure Pack that customers can host on their own hardware or can buy preconfigured from partners or have hosted by them. Airlines check in passengers, insurances track assets, truck and car drivers find their way around traffic jams, movie studios render CGI effects, retailers dynamically update and adjust pricing during the day, etcetcetc. On the Windows Azure side, we have a very broad range of projects with large enterprises that are all over the map in terms of use-cases. Microsoft runs the email and collaboration and document management systems for many very large customers in the form of Office 365 in the cloud. It's actually a false assumption that big enterprises would never give their data to the cloud. Visible benefits have been that ASP.NET MVC and Web API run on Mono, we are having more fun, and we (the community) feel more in control. From that point, we were able to take PRs from the community (and run them through the same code review process that any MSFT code goes through) and now take contributions for ASP.NET MVC, Web API, EF, SignalR, and all the Azure SDKs. In March of 2012 we started doing more Apache licenses in stead of MS-PL and took a pull request my friend Miguel de Icaza to fix a Mono bug. We started with the basic "Source Opened" style where it's there and you can see it but we couldn't take contributions. Phil had the support of ScottGu, along with the rest of the team (during IMHO a generational change of the guard) which opened the flood gates for open source. In order to add jQuery, a lot of legal precedent had to be worked out within MSFT. About the same time that Phil Haack worked on ASP.NET MVC with Scott Guthrie, we were also looking at adding jQuery (which had "won" at the time) to ASP.NET and shipping it out of the box.
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