Yes common, consistent with my views.
In that Orecklin focuses on "software developers and the application ecosystem".
People here are making wild claims that Microsoft's containers are actually Glassware, which (apart from being fiction, IMHO, with 99.99999% probability) means that any partnership would be a a deep architectural level, not apps for MSFT platforms.
Sphere 3D wants to use Azure as a platform. Sphere 3D tries to sell virtual destops running Windows operating systems.
Why wouldn't one of their evangelists agree to be a guest speaker at what really is a mundane event?
This guy probably reports up to Steve Guggenheimer.
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