Microsoft Buys Teamprise, Will Ship Linux Tools

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 12, 2009 @08:33PM from the things-get-complicated dept.

spongman writes "Microsoft's Senior Vice President, Developer Division, S. Somasegar has announced that Microsoft has acquired Teamprise from Sourcegear, LLC, and will be shipping it as part of the upcoming Visual Studio 2010 release. Teamprise is an Eclipse plugin (and related tools) for connecting to Team Foundation Server, Microsoft's source-control/project-management system. What's most interesting about this is not only that Microsoft has realized that heterogeneous development platforms are important to their developer customers, but the fact that Microsoft themselves will now be developing and shipping products based on those heterogeneous platforms, including 5 versions of Unix."

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Is this really even newsworthy at all? by petrus4 · 2009-11-13 00:12 · Score: 0, Troll

Microsoft realise (or at least make it look like they do) that working with Linux, rather than against it, is better for business. Film at 11.
If you have a brain, you're already using Emacs as an IDE. Yes, I know that statement will get refuted by the GUI hordes; the same enlightened thinkers who actually believe that C++ and XML are Good Things, and who are afflicted with that logical fallacy known as an appeal to modernity ("that crap is so 1970s!") where UNIX in general is concerned. That's why I said, "If you have a brain."
As for version control, I'm not sure, (my CVS on Sourceforge is good enough for me when I have need of such) but from what little I've read, it seems that SVN is what the cool kids are using these days.