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    The Business of Open Source
    by Sandy Gupta on November 05, 2009

    I am blogging from ApacheCon here in Oakland, where the Apache Software Foundation its celebrating its 10 th anniversary . Congratulations to the Apache community and cheers to the next ten! Our focus at Microsoft is to make Windows Server a platform... more

    • Thursday, November 05, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Sandy Gupta
    Microsoft and ApacheCon 2009
    by Peter Galli on November 03, 2009

    This week marks the 10 th anniversary of the Apache Software Foundation, which is being celebrated at the annual ApacheCon U.S. event. Microsoft is proud to be a platinum sponsor of both the ASF and ApacheCon 2009 . The Apache community is an important... more

    • Tuesday, November 03, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    A Chat With Apache Software Foundation President Justin Erenkrantz
    by Peter Galli on November 02, 2009

    This week the Apache Software Foundation celebrates its 10th anniversary at its annual U.S. ApacheCon 2009 event in Oakland. As such, I though it would be interesting to chat with ASF President Justin Erenkrantz about the past 10 years and what's still... more

    • Monday, November 02, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Moving Forward With Eclipse
    by Sandy Gupta on October 27, 2009

    It is great to see the work that started last year with the Eclipse Foundation at EclipseCon 2008 in Santa Clara, California continues its exciting journey. Today at the Eclipse Summit in Germany, the Interoperability team at Microsoft announced a number... more

    • Tuesday, October 27, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Sandy Gupta
    Roadmap Announced for Outlook Personal Folders Documentation
    by Peter Galli on October 26, 2009

    Great news on the data portability front: today, Microsoft announced that it will be releasing documentation for the .pst file format - the format in which data is stored in Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders. Even better is the fact that the documentation... more

    • Monday, October 26, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Part 2: Lessons I Learned as a Project Manager Converting to Agile
    by saraford on October 20, 2009

    In my first post for this series, I stated that "Agile is the single greatest things a team could do to significantly improve the user experience and quality of their website" and "not designing the full 100% is a true blessing in disguise." By putting... more

    • Tuesday, October 20, 2009
    • in: Dev Center
    • saraford
    Part 1: Lessons I Learned as a Project Manager Converting to Agile
    by saraford on October 19, 2009

    Before I became the Program Manager for CodePlex.com, Microsoft's open source project hosting site, I worked on the Visual Studio team on four different product cycles ... I had to learn about Agile development alongside learning about open source development when I joined the CodePlex.com team... more

    • Monday, October 19, 2009
    • in: Dev Center
    • saraford
    Another Great Step Forward for Hyper-V, Red Hat Certification
    by hjanssen on October 07, 2009

    Hello again! It has been a pretty busy couple of months for us, and I wanted to give you an update on what we've been doing: we just completed the first step in another major milestone for Hyper-V... more

    • Wednesday, October 07, 2009
    • in: Community
    • hjanssen
    New Bridge Broadens Java and .NET Interoperability
    by Peter Galli on September 29, 2009

    Microsoft continues to deliver on its ongoing promise to build bridges between different technologies, and this week jointly announced with Noelios Technologies a new interoperability bridge between Java and .NET through REST. The Microsoft Interoperability... more

    • Tuesday, September 29, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    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
    GroundWork Open Source Joins Microsoft's System Center Alliance
    by Peter Galli on September 24, 2009

    GroundWork Open Source, Inc., a commercial open source company that produces network management software, last week announced the availability of the GroundWork Connector for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager... more

    • Thursday, September 24, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Zend Launches Open Source Initiative to Drive Cloud Application Development
    by Peter Galli on September 22, 2009

    Today, Zend Technologies announced the Simple API for Cloud Application Services project, which is a new open source initiative that allows developers to use common application services in the cloud, while enabling them to unlock value-added features... more

    • Tuesday, September 22, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Sam Ramji is leaving Microsoft
    by billhilf on September 10, 2009

    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

    • Thursday, September 10, 2009
    • in: Community
    • billhilf
    The CodePlex Foundation Debuts
    by Peter Galli on September 10, 2009

    Many of you will, by now, have heard about the formation of the CodePlex Foundation. In order to give you an in-depth look into the thinking behind the Foundation, I talked to Bill Staples, the General Manager for the Web Platform and Tools Team at Microsoft... more

    • Thursday, September 10, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Windows Live Embraces the Activity Streams Open Standard
    by Peter Galli on September 04, 2009

    More good news with regard to Microsoft's embrace of open standards, this time out of the Windows Live group, which is using a developing open standard called Activity Streams, an extension to the Atom feed format ... more

    • Friday, September 04, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
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