by Peter Galli on July 20, 2009
In what many may see as a surprising move, Microsoft today released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community under the popular General Public Licence v2... more
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by Peter Galli on May 18, 2009
Microsoft and Black Duck Software this morning announced an agreement under which projects from CodePlex will be fed automatically into Black Duck's open source KnowledgeBase repository, and which will also will be searchable through Koders.com, a search... 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 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 November 09, 2007
Sam recently interviewed Daniel Lopez, Founder and CTO and Erica Brescia, CEO of Bitrock from their Spain headquarters. Daniel and Erica discuss their experiences and challenges developing open source applications and launching the BitNami project.... more
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by Sam Ramji on November 08, 2007
Back in Windows 95, Microsoft made a major contribution to accessibility to computers for people with vision and hearing impairments: MSAA, or Microsoft Active Accessibility. At that time it was an additional download, but from Windows 98 on this technology was built into the OS. MSAA allows users to run screen readers, Braille devices, and other accessibility technologies that work across multiple... more
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by Sam Ramji on August 03, 2007
Back in the Spring, Sam Ramji attended an Olliance event entitled, the Open Source Think Tank. It's a smaller gathering, and well attended by nearly 100 or so executives and influential developer-users of open source software. During one of the sessions, Sam and Justin Steinman took an impromptu moment to answer some tough questions regarding the nature of the Microsoft-Novell partnership. Justin Steinman... 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 Sam Ramji on January 30, 2007
With my colleagues at Novell, I am opening a Joint Interoperability Lab. This lab will be around for the long term, and will focus on interoperable virtualization between the two platforms. This lab will be part of the product engineering teams for both companies.
In order to get the best candidates for this lab, I'm posting the job descriptions here and inviting the Port 25 community to contact... more
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