Microsoft Open Source Blog 
Four BizSpark Plus startups were interviewed by IT publication InfoQ France, following their participation at Microsoft Experiences conference last October. These startups have chosen Microsoft Azure for their technical architecture and to support their open source technologies.
Discover their stories and their technological choices in the following articles (note: links are in French):
- Realytics.io: Hadoop, Spark & Elasticsearch
- Brennus Analytics: R, DocumentDB and Java
- Clic2Buy: PostgreSQL, Hadoop, Elasticsearch
- Coursier Privé: Vert.x and Kubernetes
Since July 2015, Microsoft has been working with partner accelerators to provide their startups with the BizSpark Plus program, which includes cloud credits on Microsoft Azure, Office 365 licenses, and free access to Microsoft software (Visual Studio, SQL Server, and more). This offer also includes a personalized IT support, direct access to Microsoft France Startup Team and a Go To Market program leveraging the power of Microsoft networks.