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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
    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
    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
    Tuxera Signs File System IP Agreement with Microsoft
    by Peter Galli on August 26, 2009

    Tuxera, a Finnish company that develops NTFS drivers, has entered into a file system IP agreement with Microsoft in the area of data portability for devices... more

    • Wednesday, August 26, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    The PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services
    by Peter Galli on August 21, 2009

    Today, the DPE Interop team at Microsoft released a new open source project that bridges PHP and .NET using REST. Specifically, the PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services was made available, which makes it easier for PHP developers to take advantage of... more

    • Friday, August 21, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    ElegantCode Cast Interview
    by Peter Galli on August 17, 2009

    David Starr, a Most Valuable Professional for Visual Studio Team System and who runs ElegantCode Cast, a podcast series off his Website , recently conducted an interview with Sam Ramji and me. It is a comprehensive interview about all things open source... more

    • Monday, August 17, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Virtualizing Free Linux Distributions in Windows Server 2008 R2
    by Peter Galli on August 10, 2009

    Jason Perlow, a columnist over at ZDNet, has written a comprehensive review on virtualizing free Linux distributions in Windows Server 2008 R2. In his Tech Broiler column, Perlow notes that the updated Hyper-V bare-metal hypervisor virtualization layer... more

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