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
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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
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by Peter Galli on June 29, 2009
As Microsoft continues to support and participate in open source communities, the company is again a proud sponsor of the annual O'Reilly Open Source Convention ( OSCON ), which is being held in San Jose from July 20 to July 24. In addition to having... more
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by Peter Galli on May 29, 2009
Microsoft Malaysia is helping sponsor a competition, known as LAMP2WIN, designed to help ensure that PHP applications run well on both Windows and open source platforms. The competition, themed ‘World of Interoperability,' is being organized by PHP.net... more
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by Peter Galli on April 23, 2009
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... more
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by Peter Galli on February 27, 2009
Microsoft is once again a Platinum Level sponsor of the annual Open Source Business Conference , which is being held at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. As part of this sponsorship, Robert Youngjohns , the president for Microsoft North America, will... more
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by Brian Gorbett on February 19, 2009
Hi, this is Brian Gorbett and I am an Architect in Microsoft's Developer & Platform Evangelism group. This week I had the privilege to speak on a panel at the Saper Law Open Source Symposium in Chicago. At first, one might be tempted to call this... more
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by Kamaljit Bath on November 10, 2008
This is Kamaljit Bath, and I am in the Big Easy to experience my first Apache Conference ! I am a Principal Program Manager in the Interoperability Technical Strategy Team at Microsoft. We have been doing a lot of great interoperability work and have... more
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by anandeep on November 07, 2008
Whenever people get to know that I work in the Open Source Lab at Microsoft, there are a few knee jerk questions they always have. The most common one is: "Microsoft has an Open Source Lab?", while another question often asked is: "So when is Microsoft... more
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by Jean Paoli on November 07, 2008
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... more
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by Sam Ramji on November 06, 2008
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... more
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by Bryan Kirschner on October 28, 2008
The city of Matsue, Japan is using Ruby to promote regional economic development . One of the unexpected highlights of the recent GOSCON , was a gentleman from Matsue coming up to me after I had given my talk about open source and Microsoft and saying... more
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by hjanssen on October 28, 2008
Today is Tuesday - That must mean I am in Mainz. I am on day 12 of my European trip. I was in Rome and Amsterdam last week. In Rome I attended the Moodle conference , which was pretty cool. It was put on by Roma Tre and was one of many destinations in... more
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by Sam Ramji on March 19, 2008
I’m writing this from EclipseCon in Santa Clara, California, where I’m going to announce the beginning of Microsoft’s collaborative work with the Eclipse Foundation. This started about a year ago when I met Mike Milinkovich at an open source event (the... 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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