by MichaelF on November 30, 2006
Brad Abrams, Group Program Manager for the .NET Framework, sits down with Sam to discuss all things AJAX including: the Open AJAX Alliance, Atlas, the Microsoft AJAX Library and cross browser compatability...... more
- Thursday, November 30, 2006
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by billhilf on November 28, 2006
I’m sitting in Istanbul watching ships – big ships with huge loads of containers on board. I recently finished a great book titled The Box, How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, Marc Levinson (2006), a fascinating analysis of the history of the shipping container. It may sound dry, but it’s a very interesting story – particularly of the entrepreneur, Malcom... more
- Tuesday, November 28, 2006
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by Sam Ramji on November 20, 2006
Eric Allman (founder of Sendmail, inventor of Allman notation, original hacker) graciously took some time with me to discuss his take on Microsoft’s opening of the Sender-ID specification. Thank you, Eric!... more
- Monday, November 20, 2006
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by MichaelF on November 17, 2006
In the wake of the announcement that Sender ID will be included in the list of technologies covered by the OSP (Open Standards Promise) we spent some time talking with Eric Allman to get his thoughts...... more
- Friday, November 17, 2006
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by anandeep on November 16, 2006
One of the great things about my job at the Open Source Software Lab (OSSL) here at Microsoft (besides being able to work with both Linux and Windows!) is that I get to go computer science research conferences. I try not to attend the purely academic ones, but the ones in which both industry and academic research issues are addressed. I just got back from ISSRE (pronounced “is-ree”) i.e. the 17th... more
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by MichaelF on November 14, 2006
Today at IT Forum in Barcelona Microsoft announced the release of Powershell (the shell formerly known as MONAD) a command line shell and scripting language intended to simplify administration and automation for system administration. To provide the Port 25 community with some additional information about this release, Sam sat down and interviewed the Powershell Architect: Jeffrey Snover...... more
- Tuesday, November 14, 2006
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by MichaelF on November 13, 2006
While in San Jose for Zendcon, we were fortunate to get some time with Jacob Taylor, Co-Founder and CTO of Sugar CRM. In this interview Sam and Jacob discuss a range of topics including the commerical open-source business model, the Zend/Microsoft collaboration, what's new and Sugar and more...... more
- Monday, November 13, 2006
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by Bryan Kirschner on November 07, 2006
I know I’m running a risk of losing focus on the thread I started on analogy and metaphor, but there’ve been too many things popping up in the last couple weeks. In the interest of focus (and maybe good taste) I decided not to follow up There’s a Vendor in My OSS with “And Now There’s an Oracle in My Pudding” for now...... more
- Tuesday, November 07, 2006
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by billhilf on November 02, 2006
Today we announced a very important partnership with Novell that represents a milestone for our industry. The partnership has technical, business and legal significance for Microsoft, Novell, our customers and the open source community. I want to break it down into reasonably sized chunks of information to help explain what it is and how we arrived here...... more
- Thursday, November 02, 2006
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by MichaelF on November 01, 2006
I have been itching to write on this subject ever since I first met w/ Doug Lora and Frank Chism. High-Performance computing – Wow!! The first time someone explained the concept to me, I couldn’t help but visualize a scene from the movie “Blade Runner” and the futuristic feel of how Supercomputers actually work. My interest took me deeper into the heart of HPC to try to get my head around what HPC... more
- Wednesday, November 01, 2006
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by Sam Ramji on November 01, 2006
I got to spend an hour with Ross Mayfield (founder of Socialtext) today. We talked about a range of things, from open source calculators (WikiCalc) to the future of Sharepoint as a platform for open source development and the shift in Microsoft's approach to open source. Ross graciously gave us an extra fifteen minutes to capture part of our conversation on video...... more
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