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Microsoft's Savvy Open Source Move

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the good-business-sense dept.

willdavid writes to mention Joe Panettieri is reporting that Microsoft is continuing their push for open source software interoperability. In the most recent push Microsoft is partnering with a small Silicon Valley company called SpikeSource to certify open source software on Windows 2008. "Despite growing Linux deployments, Windows Server remains quite popular for running open source applications. SugarCRM, the fast-growing open source application provider, is quick to note that many of its business developments occur on Windows Server. And Microsoft itself has sponsored SugarCRM's conferences, in order to stay in front of open source crowds."

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  1. others are being more savvy about it by dartmongrel · · Score: 5, Informative

    Seems to me that Sun are being a bit more savvy in the way they are doing things. First OpenOffice and mysql, now they seem to be partnering up with Canonical (Ubuntu). call me what you will, I'll never trust M$ again.

    1. Re:others are being more savvy about it by zappepcs · · Score: 3, Informative

      I run Ubuntu and Fedora at home, play with a couple of other distros, but for the family members, it's Ubuntu. Fedora on the two servers. I was donated a copy (legal and stuff) of XP Pro so it sits on a box in the corner of the office if needed. Spend more time keeping it up to date and scanned than anything else really.

      The move with Sun/OOorg/MySQL is something I'm watching closely and hope that it ends up being the winner I suspect it will be.

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  2. Kim Polese is CEO of SpikeSource by VampireByte · · Score: 3, Informative

    She has a great track record - founded Marimba, product manager for Java at Sun. I'm not surprised that Microsoft would want to be involved with her when it comes to their open source interests.

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  3. You mean like this by badriram · · Score: 4, Informative

    ODF Convertor, is an addin for Office. Microsoft is Funding, and providing documentation and help.
    http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/

  4. Re:Windows Server rocks by ThatDamnMurphyGuy · · Score: 5, Informative

    And let's be honest here. I like to bash MS as much as possible. I use MS at $work and FAMP at home. Windows 2008 and IIS7 took some truely great strides away from the old MS way of doing things. 2008 can be installed without a gui. You can powershell/remote admin EVERYTHING from the command line. In fact, the GUI admin tools use the things written for the powershell/command line administration. Group policies now have preferences, allowing things like making policy on what fields SQL developers need to add when they create tables...what users can consume n% of the CPU, etc.

    IIS7 does NOTHING out of the box, and everything is a module. Almost everything that used to be a tab when configuring an IIS app is now a seperate module..even just redurecting an entire site to another url. And the new 3.5 ASP.NET stuff has a real MVC layer in the works for people like me who completely hate ASP.NET PostBack hackery. IIS7 now has full support for FastCGI and PHP is a first class language in terms of performance. I imagine this will hold true for other FastCGI friendly things like Ruby/Perl/Python/RoR/Catalyst/Django.

  5. Re:Mocking freedom. by BoChen456 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Interoperability is as simple as releasing specs and source code without obligation. Stop trying to change the meaning of Interoperability. Interoperability != Open and free source code.