Microsoft And JBoss Collaborate On Server Software

wellington map wrote to mention a C|Net article discussing a collaboration between Microsoft and JBoss, intended to ensure their server software is more interoperable. From the article: "Microsoft has struggled to deal with the arrival of open-source software, which is collaboratively developed with a code-sharing process that stands in stark contrast to the secrecy that shrouds most of the products from Microsoft and other proprietary software makers. After several attacks on the intellectual-property foundations and the methods, quality and cost of open-source software, Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft has begun a more cooperative phase."

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Taking fire

[Armadni General]

Microsoft is in major damage-control mode.

Praise Mirrordot: http://mirrordot.com/stories/f28f24fb03710608d1abd 6149d94cbaf/index.html

microsoft will turn around if...

[FudRucker]

...if they want to survive, when FOSS gains enough market share that most the world has moved on and been using FOSS and it puts msft in fear of becoming obsolete they will cooperate, make microsoft cooperate with FOSS first! to show good faith, the sooner msft realises the IT industry can live without them the better...

drink the koolaide monkeyboy

Stages of Denial

[Bellum Aeternus]

* Denial
* Anger
* Bargaining <-- Seems that we are here
* Depression
* Acceptance

Mr. Ballmer seems to be stuck at 'Anger', but looks like the rest of MS is moving on.

MS developers are already in the grief stage however:

* Numbness
* Disorganization
* Reorganization (ie get hired by Google)