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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. 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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  2. 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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