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 Sam Ramji on February 27, 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... more
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by Sam Ramji on February 22, 2008
Four years ago, we started the Linux Lab at Microsoft. Two years ago, we established the Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft. One year ago, we initiated the Linux Interoperability Lab at Microsoft. Yesterday, we announced the broadest change to the... 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 Sam Ramji on September 05, 2007
After a great deal of work between the Moonlight and .NET teams, we’re ready to formally announce that we (Microsoft and Novell) will be bringing Silverlight to Linux, fully supported and including application and media codec compatibility...... more
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by MichaelF on August 13, 2007
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 on Linux and Windows interoperability.
Overall our focus is on three critical technology areas for the next-generation datacenter: virtualization... more
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by Sam Ramji on May 31, 2007
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...... 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 MichaelF on January 15, 2007
Back in August we posted a podcast with Praerit Garg regarding the announcement of the Service Modeling Language draft specification put together by Microsoft and a number of other leading technology companies. We wanted to follow-up and provide an update on the specification and the workgroup…... more
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by jcannon on December 21, 2006
Just a quick note & pointer to Paul Thurrott's interview with Sam on Open Source, the Lab and why these intiatives are so important to Microsoft and to our customers. The interview was conducted back in October, but the podcast just went live at Windows IT Pro.... more
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by Sam Ramji on November 20, 2006
Eric Allman (founder of Sendmail, inventor of Allman notation, original hacker) graciously took some time with me to discuss his take on Microsoft’s opening of the Sender-ID specification. Thank you, Eric!... more
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by MichaelF on November 17, 2006
In the wake of the announcement that Sender ID will be included in the list of technologies covered by the OSP (Open Standards Promise) we spent some time talking with Eric Allman to get his thoughts...... more
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by MichaelF on August 17, 2006
Microsoft and a number of leading technology companies recently announced the publishing of a draft specification that defines a common language for expressing information about IT services and resources. We wanted some more details regarding the scope of this draft specification, its impact on the industry and the technical details behind it. To get those answers Sam interviewed Praerit Gart, Senior... more
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by jcannon on July 06, 2006
Linux Format reported on Port 25 recently with the tagline “Reports of snowballs seen in hell as Microsoft offers to work with Linux developers,” which I thought was funny. It’s apparently getting even colder down there as we’ve now announced an open source project that adds support for ODF to Microsoft Word 2007.... more
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by admin on April 14, 2006
Running a startup is hard. Keeping it going and focused is harder. Selling it while maintaining your principles is nearly impossible – but JBoss has scored a hat trick....... more
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