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Microsoft Plays Up Open Source

Posted by kdawson on from the coopetition dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Recently Microsoft's open source software lab posted PostgreSQL on Windows: A Primer. Postgres is one of the longest running open source databases — it has been around for nearly 11 years. The powerful object-relational database is a direct competitor to other OSS databases, as well as Microsoft's SQL Server 2005. So why is Microsoft promoting it? I get Redmond's interest in boosting anything that runs on Windows as a platform. Is this simply a case of left-hand, right-hand, or is something deeper going on?"

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  1. Furthering their extortion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe they beleive they have a solid case that postgressql infringes on their patents. They want more companies using it (and to know who) so they know who they can take to court and extort some protection money.

  2. Let me be the first to say by bytesex · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's a trap !

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  3. Re:Microsoft is only Anti-GPL by nacturation · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft is behaving like a beached whale. Are they in more trouble than anyone knows? All this recent FUD including Ballmer. BALL My Eyes Red? Cray baby cry... I never would have thought it possible, but my monitor actually frothed just from displaying that comment.
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  4. Re:MS is not really so monolithic by killjoe · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's remarkable about this community is their lack of objection to their companies behavior. Clearly people who either agree with how their company behaves or maybe people who don't have a strong moral compass.

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  5. Re:Bullshit summary as usual... by ady1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Firstly, an article on Port 25 is not promotion.
    It's not. It's SMTP
  6. Cancel or allow by floki · · Score: 4, Funny

    Best part: "The install on Vista is similar to other Windows installs but to install on Vista, you must turn off User Account Control first." :-)

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  7. Re:What's going on here? by ajs318 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have heard of at least one company where the IT department were ordered to set up IIS, ASP and MS SQL server for a management-initiated project (one of the bosses had taken some mickey-mouse correspondence course and fancied himself as a designer of database-driven web sites). What they actually did was set up a small test server for Gates's toady; pocket the rest of the money meant for Microsoft; set up Linux, Apache, PHP and MySQL on the outward-facing server; make some flimsy security-related excuses why the boss shouldn't have direct access to the outward-facing server; and translate all the well-meaning-but-terminally-incompetent boss's badly-written ASP code into PHP.

    It makes me think of this song .....

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