IDG Contributor Network: Red Hat Enterprise Linux is now available on Microsoft Azure

2015 will be remembered as the year Microsoft started to embrace Linux. But while the Windows maker embraced SUSE and Canonical, it kept Red Hat, the king of Linux, at a distance.
But not for too long.
Microsoft themselves has said that more than 20% Azure virtual machines are Linux, adding that if customers are running RHEL, Microsoft has to offer what these customers want.
So the biggest story of 2015 was the announcement that Microsoft would offer RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) on Azure. An