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Monday May 18, 2009 in: Community by: 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...more

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    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
    Joining Microsoft's Open Source Effort

    "Open source at Microsoft." My friends still find that phrase surprising. Yet for those of us who have worked so long on open source, if we really believe the principles we have espoused, shouldn't this be the expected outcome? In 1994 I did my first...

    • Thursday, March 12, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Mark Stone
    Open Source Interoperability Projects

    Interoperability has always been a focus area at Microsoft. Being a platform company, Microsoft has engaged in interoperability at many levels - product features, participation in standardization bodies, publishing many technologies under open licenses...

    • Friday, November 07, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Jean Paoli
    struct.new("future", :open, :microsoft)

    I delivered the keynote at ApacheCon in New Orleans today, where I talked about some of the new milestones we have chalked up on the journey inside Microsoft towards greater participation and growth with open source communities, and our strategy of "architecting...

    • Thursday, November 06, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Sam Ramji
    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...

    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...

    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
    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
    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
    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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