February 2009 - Posts

    OSBC 2009 and Microsoft
    by Peter Galli on February 27, 2009

    Microsoft is once again a Platinum Level sponsor of the annual Open Source Business Conference , which is being held at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. As part of this sponsorship, Robert Youngjohns , the president for Microsoft North America, will... more

    • Friday, February 27, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Press Alert: Open Source at Microsoft
    by Peter Galli on February 25, 2009

    Open Source at Microsoft has gotten a lot of press attention recently. Influential blogger Matt Asay reported today that Bob Muglia, president of Microsoft's Server and Tools business, was at the Stanford Accel Symposium , where he said that "at some... more

    • Wednesday, February 25, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    The Saper Law Open Source Symposium
    by Brian Gorbett on February 19, 2009

    Hi, this is Brian Gorbett and I am an Architect in Microsoft's Developer & Platform Evangelism group. This week I had the privilege to speak on a panel at the Saper Law Open Source Symposium in Chicago. At first, one might be tempted to call this... more

    • Thursday, February 19, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Brian Gorbett
    Microsoft, Red Hat to Offer Joint Technical Support
    by Peter Galli on February 16, 2009

    Microsoft and Red Hat announced this morning that they have recently signed agreements to test and validate their server operating systems running on one another's hypervisors. This is deeply significant as it means that customers will be able to confidently... more

    • Monday, February 16, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Moonlight 1.0 Hits the Street
    by Peter Galli on February 11, 2009

    Moonlight 1.0 is now available. Moonlight is an open source project that gives Linux users access to Microsoft Silverlight content, and is available for all major Linux distributions, including openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Fedora, Red Hat, and Ubuntu... more

    • Wednesday, February 11, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Welcome Snakebite, the Newest Open Network in Town!
    by Peter Galli on February 10, 2009

    There's a new Open Network in town, known as Snakebite, which is the brainchild of Trent Nelson , a committer to Python. Snakebite is a network of some 37 servers of different shapes and sizes, spread over three sites and specifically geared towards the... more

    • Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    OASIS Members Approve Nine Web Services Standards
    by Peter Galli on February 04, 2009

    Members of OASIS, the international open standards consortium, have approved nine Web services specifications as OASIS Standards. The WS Reliable Exchange (WS-RX), WS Transactions (WS-TX), and WS Secure Exchange (WS-SX) standards support reliable message... more

    • Wednesday, February 04, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
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