Scott Guthrie, well known among developers for his red polo shirts, has been promoted to EVP of Cloud & Enterprise. _This is now CEO Satya Nadella’s old position. _eWeek snagged his first interview since his promotion: What’s your stance on openness? In our demos you can see that we try to integrate openness. We show we can build on an iPhone, we show our support for Chrome, and we have the_Oracle deal_we did in terms of enabling Oracle databases and middleware and Java on the platform. These are all example of how we’re trying to take openness and trying to reach every audience and recognizing that most organizations in large companies have a bit of everything in them. What the marketing team uses is different from the IT team and is different from the data analytics team and so forth. And we’ve been looking for great partners to help us better help our customers and, through partnering with us, to better help theirs. Can you give some of the back...

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