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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

• Thursday, November 06, 2008
• in: Community
• Sam Ramji

Opening Day: Azure Platform Debuts

by Sam Ramji on October 27, 2008

Today at PDC in Los Angeles, Ray Ozzie unveiled the Azure Services Platform , which will enable developers to build the next generation of applications - spanning all the way from the cloud to the enterprise data center. My team's focus has been on making... more

• Monday, October 27, 2008
• in: Community
• Sam Ramji

Open Messaging

by Sam Ramji on October 24, 2008

We've been working with a range of open source projects in the last few years, and each one has taught us something - both what to do more of, and what to change. One of the things we've learned in listening to very specific customer needs, is that there... more

• Friday, October 24, 2008
• in: Community
• Sam Ramji

Supernova

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

• Wednesday, March 19, 2008
• in: Dev Center
• Sam Ramji

How open source has influenced Windows Server 2008

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

• Wednesday, February 27, 2008
• in: Server Center
• Sam Ramji

A Brief History of Open at Microsoft

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

• Friday, February 22, 2008
• in: Community
• Sam Ramji