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Sam Ramji is leaving Microsoft

I felt it was important to provide some thoughts to the Port25 community on Sam Ramji’s impending departure from Microsoft. After many years helping to carry the open source software banner for the company, Sam is leaving Microsoft at the end of this month. ...more

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    Sam Ramji is leaving Microsoft

    I felt it was important to provide some thoughts to the Port25 community on Sam Ramji’s impending departure from Microsoft. After many years helping to carry the open source software banner for the company, Sam is leaving Microsoft at the end of this...

    • Thursday, September 10, 2009
    • in: Community
    • billhilf
    Releasing the Linux Integration Component Drivers...

    Microsoft on Monday contributed the Linux Integration Component drivers to the Linux community for the reasons stated in our release. Microsoft chose the GPLv2 license for the mutual benefit of our customers, partners, the community, and Microsoft....

    • Thursday, July 23, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Sam Ramji
    Microsoft Releases Device Driver Code to the Linux Community

    In what many may see as a surprising move, Microsoft today released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community under the popular General Public Licence v2...

    • Monday, July 20, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Microsoft Teams up With Black Duck Software

    Microsoft and Black Duck Software this morning announced an agreement under which projects from CodePlex will be fed automatically into Black Duck's open source KnowledgeBase repository, and which will also will be searchable through Koders.com, a search...

    • Monday, May 18, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Chatting to Students at Michigan State University

    As Microsoft continues to engage in active dialogues with a variety of communities, including academic institutions, Sam Ramji - Microsoft's Senior Director of Platform Strategy - talked to a group of Computer Science students at Michigan State University...

    • Monday, May 04, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    The Linux Foundation's Collaboration Summit

    A lot has been written by the press and blogosphere since the Linux Foundation's annual Collaboration Summit was held earlier this month, particularly about the panel that included Microsoft's Sam Ramji, Sun Microsystems' Ian Murdock, and Linux Foundation...

    • Thursday, April 23, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Linux and Windows Interoperability: On the Metal and On the Wire

    I had the opportunity to present at both OSCON in Portland and at LinuxWorld in San Francisco in the last three weeks – both O’Reilly and IDG were gracious enough to grant me a session on the work that Microsoft is doing with Novell, XenSource, and others...

    Python, Java, Ruby, Oh My! Silverlight Alpha 1.1 ships with Dynamic Language Support

    Mix 07 kicked off today with keynotes from Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie. Amongst announcements regarding media and Silverlight Scott Guthrie announced the release of a cross-platform version of the .NET framework within Silverlight Alpha 1.1. Included...

    • Monday, April 30, 2007
    • in: Community
    • MichaelF
    How open source has influenced Windows Server 2008

    When I think about what works really well in open source development and technology, the following things stand out: Modular architectures You can find these wherever you see participation at scale – and often a rearchitecture to a more modular system...

    Talking Ruby and Dynamic Language Support with John Lam

    As promised in the first post today, here is the second interview regarding today's announcements regarding Microsoft's Dynamic Language Runtime and Silverlight......

    • Monday, April 30, 2007
    • in: Community
    • MichaelF
    Talking Mono with Miguel de Icaza

    In this, the last of our interviews from the LANG.NET Symposium, Sam sits down with Miguel de Icaza, VP Development Platform at Novell and co-founder of Ximian. Miguel is also responsible for starting two Open Source project you may have heard of: GNOME...

    • Friday, August 11, 2006
    • in: Media
    • MichaelF
    Samba, IPv6 and Windows/Linux Interoperability: Sam interviews Dr. David Holder

    I got the chance to meet many extremely smart developers last month at SambaXP, the annual Samba developer conference. After attending I’m convinced that the Samba team knows more about how Windows networking works than most Microsoft developers......

    • Thursday, May 31, 2007
    • in: Media
    • Sam Ramji
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