Who cares about Hadoop on Linux? Microsoft (yes, really)

Last month Microsoft did something extraordinary – something which demonstrates how completely the company has changed since its third CEO, Satya Nadella, took over.Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure HDInsight, a fully managed Apache Hadoop cluster service running on Linux in its Azure cloud.At first glance that's doesn't seem like to much of a big deal. But it is, and here's why.When Microsoft announced Azure back in 2008, what it actually announced was "Windows Azure."