by jcannon on March 12, 2008
At last years, OSBC, Microsoft hosted its first annual Open Source ISV Forum. In large part, the event was focused on facilitating a discussion around enabling open source innovation on Microsoft technologies, and to help potential partners reach new... more
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by Community Contributor on February 27, 2008
First, many thanks to Microsoft’s Port 25 Team for the opportunity to post today! Today SpikeSource announced the availability of five additional PHP-based applications on the Windows Server 2008 platform. Gallery, Mantis, Moodle, PhpBB and WebCalendar... more
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by jcannon on January 10, 2008
It's going to be a busy couple months in the open source industry, with a number of influential conferences convening over the next six months to discuss the latest issues, advances and topics facing OSS. More on those later, but I wanted to get something quick up on one in particular that Microsoft is participating in...... more
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by Sam Ramji on December 19, 2007
First, let me say thanks to Jeremy Allison and Andrew Tridgell for their decades of hard work and their optimism.
Back in March, Jeremy invited me to talk about Samba and Microsoft, and how we could work together. It turned out
that our first opportunity to meet was actually at the annual Samba developers’ conference, SambaXP in Gottingen,
Germany in late April. I spent three days there listening... more
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by jcannon on November 27, 2007
For those who've been participating on Port 25 since the beginning, you may have noticed two recurring themes. One, Microsoft has a focus on generativity - or the ability for technology to be extensible to others, be they community or commercial developers. Windows, Office - the Live APIs - are all examples of this ability for technology to serve a purpose, and allow others to build new purposes simultaneously... more
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by Sam Ramji on November 08, 2007
Back in Windows 95, Microsoft made a major contribution to accessibility to computers for people with vision and hearing impairments: MSAA, or Microsoft Active Accessibility. At that time it was an additional download, but from Windows 98 on this technology was built into the OS. MSAA allows users to run screen readers, Braille devices, and other accessibility technologies that work across multiple... more
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by hanrahat on September 12, 2007
We’ve announced this week the opening of the Microsoft and Novell Interoperability Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. With this announcement we can now talk about the work that’s been underway at the lab since the beginning of summer...... more
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by Community Contributor on April 25, 2007
This morning, a guest blog from Gerardo Narvaja, Senior Sales Engineer from the MySQL User Conference......
In Bryan’s article he used the metaphor calling the coopetition between Microsoft and MySQL the “beautiful game”, or like the Brazilians like to call it: “jogo bonito”. I will try to exemplify it scripting what could be a real world scenario. I will be making a quick demo based on this article... more
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by Bryan Kirschner on April 24, 2007
At the MySQL Conference and Expo 2007, technical experts from Microsoft and MySQL are here demonstrating a number of technology projects that give customers more choice when deploying MySQL on Windows. In fact, MySQL and Microsoft work together on a number of applications, including ADO.NET provider Interop, and a Visual Studio plug-in that enables developers to access MySQL data directly from VS.... 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 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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by Sam Ramji on February 14, 2007
Based on the email I received I would say that many Port 25 readers noticed my post last week on job openings in my new lab. Thank you for your positive responses (and especially the resume submissions)! Brad Cutler, my counterpart at Novell, has been overwhelmed with responses as well, so thank you on his behalf. I’ve called this a sneak peek because there is much work ahead of us, but it’s time... more
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by Sam Ramji on January 30, 2007
With my colleagues at Novell, I am opening a Joint Interoperability Lab. This lab will be around for the long term, and will focus on interoperable virtualization between the two platforms. This lab will be part of the product engineering teams for both companies.
In order to get the best candidates for this lab, I'm posting the job descriptions here and inviting the Port 25 community to contact... more
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by billhilf on November 02, 2006
Today we announced a very important partnership with Novell that represents a milestone for our industry. The partnership has technical, business and legal significance for Microsoft, Novell, our customers and the open source community. I want to break it down into reasonably sized chunks of information to help explain what it is and how we arrived here...... more
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by billhilf on October 31, 2006
Today I had the opportunity to attend and present at the Zend/PHP Conference and Expo in San Jose. I was here to announce a technical collaboration between Zend and Microsoft that will improve the performance of PHP on Windows Server (and down the road Longhorn Server). You can read the specific details of the collaboration here.... more
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