Microsoft's announcement about cross-platform product support raised many eyebrows with curiosity and sparked a lot of buzz. Now, Microsoft's latest announcements and developments toward open source projects is definitely a trend-setting factor in the IT market. This announcement prompted two big questions: why and how. There have been discussions on the porting of various components and software pieces using Drawbridge.
Interested? Well, first of all, PowerShell running on a Linux machine enables the user to run management tasks, such as provisioning resources, configuration, and auditing, on Linux. Now, let's say you write one script to perform the same tasks on Windows as well as Linux machines. On the same day that Microsoft made their announcement about cross-platform support, Amazon announced...