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Apache Qpid Moves Forward

by Sandy Gupta on September 29, 2009

Microsoft recently made a significant code drop to the Apache Qpid project, Apache's implementation of the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol, a new and reliable messaging protocol developed by some of the world's biggest messaging users... more

• Tuesday, September 29, 2009
• in: Community
• Sandy Gupta

MindTouch: Open Source Collaboration Built on .NET

by Aaron Fulkerson on August 04, 2009

It has been a while since I last guest wrote at Port25, which is always a pleasure. Today, I am writing about the latest MindTouch software release, codename Minneopa, which introduces three new innovative capabilities ... more

• Tuesday, August 04, 2009
• in: Server Center
• Aaron Fulkerson

Brazilian Students Set Their Own Course

by Mark Stone on March 16, 2009

I’m going to tell a story that starts in Indiana, but really it’s about Brazil. Once upon a time “scientific computing” was nearly synonymous with “Fortran”. Today, though, just about any high level language can be used to write High Performance Computing... more

• Monday, March 16, 2009
• in: Community
• Mark Stone

Moonlight Shines on Obama's Inauguration

by Peter Galli on January 23, 2009

Microsoft and Novell joined forces this week to make sure that Linux users were able to watch the Barack Obama Official Inauguration stream with Novell's Moonlight, an open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight 1.0. The issue was that while... more

• Friday, January 23, 2009
• in: Community
• Peter Galli

Two Years and Counting....

by Peter Galli on November 18, 2008

It is two years this month since Microsoft and Novell struck their ground-breaking technical collaboration agreement , a move that has effectively ensured greater interoperability between Windows Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. This technical... more

• Tuesday, November 18, 2008
• in: Community
• Peter Galli

Open Source Highlights at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference

by hanrahat on November 04, 2008

At last week's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, product previews and announcements, particularly of Windows Azure , Windows 7 and Visual Studio Team System 2010, generated a lot of buzz. Throughout the week, an important undercurrent... more

• Tuesday, November 04, 2008
• in: Community
• hanrahat