by anandeep on March 30, 2007
Samir Chopra is an Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science at the City University of New York (CUNY), Brooklyn. He has a Master’s degree in Computer Science and a Doctorate in Philosophy and is interested in the intersection of politics and technology – specifically information technology. In this post we both interview Samir and provide a chapter from his forthcoming book: Decoding... more
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by MichaelF on March 29, 2007
Seven new Codeplex projects...... more
- Thursday, March 29, 2007
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by billhilf on March 28, 2007
I recently spent time in South East Asia. As always these trips are enlightening, but as I wrote before one of the most important missions of these visits is to understand the health, growth and diversity of the local software economy. And it’s not just the Microsoft related software economies, but how all software is growing in a country.... more
- Wednesday, March 28, 2007
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by Bryan Kirschner on March 23, 2007
I’ve been running silent for awhile—ironically, because I had too much to blog about. Sam Ramji and I attended (and sponsored) Olliance Group & DLA Piper’s 2007 Open Source Think Tank earlier this month. Participants were encouraged to “live blog” (under an honor code)—but I found I was booked 7 AM – Midnight and was fully engaged in what was going on. Since then I’ve been mulling over the things... more
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by kishi on March 21, 2007
This is the 19th year I have spent in the Information Technology business, out of which more than 15 were spent designing and implementing IT environments of various scopes, platforms and sizes. Among several similarities and differences between each implementation, a few constants always emerged, and my favorite of all: Systems Manageability...... more
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by MichaelF on March 20, 2007
Awhile ago we talked to Martin Woodward from Teamprise about their suite of client applications allowing cross-platform access to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. Today Teamprise announced free client licenses for developers who want to use them to access Codeplex. In this post we provide information on the announcement as well as a new interview with Martin...... more
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by jcannon on March 16, 2007
MySQL is an open source relational database management system which is typically used for light-weight web applications. This paper will provide an overview of configuring & intalling this software on Windows. MySQL does not have as many features as PostgreSQL, however, and one would expect it to perform substantially better than PostgreSQL on Windows because of its thread-based architecture (PostgreSQL... more
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by jcannon on March 14, 2007
Today, a lighter post and link to Sara Ford's blog which talks about her recent presentation to Microsoft employees entitled, "Embracing Open Source on Codeplex." Sara, a developer/evangelist with Microsoft on the Visual Studio Powertoys team, has been a tireless supporter and advocate of change internally on identifying when & where it makes sense to embrace open source collaboration and licensing... more
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by jcannon on March 09, 2007
In our continuing series of papers describing both the research undertaken by the Open Source Software Lab, and technical tips, here is the latest networking configuration technical analysis. Abstract: This document provides the reader with an analysis... more
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by jcannon on March 08, 2007
Folks may be aware of our technical collaborations with open source companies like Zend, JBoss and SugarCRM, but to-date, our work with MySQL hasn't gained a ton of attention. Some background. Over the summer of 2006, MySQL joined the Visual Studio Industry Program, a program that allows institutions, researchers, companies,etc. access to the extensibility components of Visual Studio. This, in turn... more
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by anandeep on March 07, 2007
I just got back from Cambridge (in the United Kingdom, not the one by the Charles river) from the Microsoft Research / Technische Universitat Darmstadt “Reliability Analysis of System Failure Data” conference. The objective of the conference was to bring academia and industry together to deal with a problem in the field of reliability analysis...... more
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by billhilf on March 05, 2007
Four random bits....... more
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by MichaelF on March 02, 2007
For those who weren't aware there is a series of blogs penned by Todd Osagawara and Matt Asay on O'Reilly's OnLAMP site called: Inside Port 25...... more
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