by jcannon on October 10, 2008
When I began my journey with technology, it was with a passion for the web. Living off a friend’s T1 line, I was hacking together HTML when Mosaic was the only show in town. I’m returning to that love of the web next week where I’ll be moving to a new... more
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by jcannon on September 16, 2008
From our very own Sara Ford , word comes of Codeplex now offering server support for SvnBridge . SvnBridge enables TortoiseSVN to talk to Team Foundation Server. From Sara, "Support for Subversion has been our number one requested feature, and by hosting... more
- Tuesday, September 16, 2008
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by jcannon on July 16, 2008
Our community knows that open source businesses are important to Microsoft. Nothing demonstrates this better than the fact that open source was a key theme in the recent Windows Server 2008 Launch. You can read more about that here . One of the individuals... more
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by jcannon on June 17, 2008
Abstract : Microsoft Terminal Services provides an important set of functionality for remote administration and centralized application management. This service allows administrators to log in remotely and with full access to the system. Similarly, users... more
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by jcannon on June 11, 2008
Abstract: SSH has largely replaced Telnet for remote administration of UNIX and Linux systems, but has not yet been used much on Windows. SSH is generally considered to be more secure than Telnet and the Berkeley remote commands (rlogin, etc). This paper... more
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by jcannon on June 06, 2008
Abstract: Secure remote access to UNIX and Linux systems is generally accomplished through SSH. The most frequent implementation of that protocol is OpenSSH, originally written for the OpenBSD project but now ported to a wide variety of platforms. This... more
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by jcannon on June 05, 2008
Over the past four years, we’ve been working with Sourceforge on a number of unique programs to help connect developers with the code and communities that interest them. In 2004, we started the Windows Installer XML (WiX) Toolkit project on Sourceforge... more
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by jcannon on May 28, 2008
As many frequent readers of Port 25 are aware, Microsoft is committed to the long-term growth of open source. This includes technical collaborations, business partnerships, industry participation – and community outreach. As we continue to grow our investments... more
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by jcannon on April 14, 2008
John Lam brings word of a Ruby meet-up at the MVP Summit happening today at 2PM at the International Meeting Place at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle. Quote John: "I’m going to be at the Convention Center from around 1:30 onwards. There... more
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by jcannon on April 01, 2008
Last Friday, March 28th, 2008 was Microsoft's first company-wide Open Source Day. This was a significant event and milestone in the company's move towards openness and was made freely available to any employee interested in attending. Packed full of panels... more
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by jcannon on April 01, 2008
We wanted to thank the Open Source Initiative (OSI) for the commitment and willingess to work together - and today, making public the Microsoft Open Source Initiative: The Microsoft Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation formed to educate... more
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by jcannon on March 12, 2008
At last years, OSBC, Microsoft hosted its first annual Open Source ISV Forum. In large part, the event was focused on facilitating a discussion around enabling open source innovation on Microsoft technologies, and to help potential partners reach new... more
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by jcannon on January 31, 2008
I'm going to guess that some of our audience knows what ComicCon is - I'm familiar as I was huge DC and Marvel fan in the mid-90's...Who was not, I suppose. My favorite hero, to this day, is Batman (he fights the fight without any special powers....) - and the annual San Diego event was an easy way to track that industry, and the entertainment space around it. Suffice to say, I'm excited for the Dark... more
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by jcannon on January 21, 2008
Earlier this month, I was reading the Open Solutions Alliance's top predictions for 2008....this was based on polling they conducted within their membership base. It's a good read and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys that kind of fodder (there's no shortage of "predictions," it seems, this time of year.) The full report is here (PDF). One in particular caught my eye: The CEO of Adaptive Planning... more
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by jcannon on January 10, 2008
It's going to be a busy couple months in the open source industry, with a number of influential conferences convening over the next six months to discuss the latest issues, advances and topics facing OSS. More on those later, but I wanted to get something quick up on one in particular that Microsoft is participating in...... more
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