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 to... 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. One of the most informative sessions I attended was led by Dr. David Holder, an expert on IP networking and Windows/Linux interoperability. Specifically... more
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by MichaelF on September 20, 2006
Sam interviews Rod Smith Author of the O'Reilly Book : Linux in a Windows World , a required read for OSSL staff. In this interview Sam and Rod discuss the impetus for writing the book and what readers can expect as well as Rod's background and challenges faced in penning this useful resource. Along with the interview, O'Reilly Publications has given us permission to repost an excerpt from... more
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by admin on May 24, 2006
I'm reading Open Sources 2.0 right now. It's a well-composed book of short essays by founders and luminaries of the Open Source movement - people like Chris DiBona , Ian Murdock , Matt Asay , and Danese Cooper , to name just a few. So far I've read essays by Mitchell Baker (Mozilla), Chris DiBona (Google/Slashdot), Jeremy Allison (Samba), Ben Laurie (Apache), and Michael Olson (Sleepycat... more
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by Peter Galli on October 24, 2008
Getting external feedback is always a good thing, and something that Microsoft has been trying to do a lot more of, particularly with regard to its focus on openness and interoperability with various open source communities. So it was with great interest that I read the trip report for the CIFS Conference and AD Plugfest , by Andrew Bartlett of the Samba Team, which is a candid assessment of the great... more
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by Sam Ramji on June 08, 2007
Most of Port 25’s readers are aware of my commitment to interoperability between Microsoft and Linux, as exemplified in the OSSL’s work on IPsec and now the three-sided virtualization, identity, and systems management work with Novell . I’m proud to announce a leader at Microsoft who has the sole purpose of bringing Windows and Linux technologies together: Tom Hanrahan. Tom will join... 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 way the Microsoft builds software and works with open source communities and developers. By now you’ve probably read the announcement – “ Microsoft Makes... more
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by hanrahat on August 23, 2007
I’ve been a regular attendee of the O’Reilly Open Source Conference in Portland and Linux World Expo – San Francisco for several years, but this is the first time I represented Microsoft at them. Between the two conferences, I met a lot of people with whom I’ve worked for many years. I appreciate the encouraging words I received from many of them and I respect the concerns others... more
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by billhilf on November 02, 2006
Today we announced a very important partnership with Novell that represents a milestone for our industry. The partnership has technical, business and legal significance for Microsoft, Novell, our customers and the open source community. I want to break it down into reasonably sized chunks of information to help explain what it is and how we arrived here. There is often a big ‘elephant in the... more
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by admin on April 21, 2006
Oil and Water? It’s been an interesting week for Interop inside the lab – we’re running an IPSEC interoperability project to test Fedora, OpenSUSE, RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu, and Mandriva with Windows Networking technology, and ran interviews both with the IDMU (Identity Management for Unix) Program Manager and with Paul Moore, CTO of Centrify. Today I spoke with Jeremy Moskowitz, a Windows... more
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