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Codeplex 100 Day Deadline Passes Unremarked
Andy Updegrove writes "As you may recall, Microsoft announced back on September 10 that it had launched a new, open source organization called the CodePlex Foundation. Since then, it has announced Project Acceptance and Operation Guidelines, its first 'Gallery' (a project area), supporting Microsoft's ASP.NET, and two projects in that gallery. But it had also launched in a 'less than open' state with an interim Board of Directors, and a promise to elect a permanent one in 100 days. Problem is, December 19 — the 100 day mark — passed quietly, with no announcement of a new Board or a status update on the other goals it had set for the launch period. So what's up with the CodePlex Foundation, and its pledge to promptly transition into a more independent organization?"
Its on the front page of: http://codeplex.org/index.aspx
They decided to move to Linux in Oct 2009. The latest outage was in November 2009 on the old system. They haven't moved to the new Linux system yet (hint: it takes more than a month). So we can run this up the Slashdot flagpole and all have another round of bashing Microsoft of their lousy LSE software if you want.
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
i mean come on :)) you didnt take them seriously now did you ?
Happy new year :)
Ric
People want a large resource pool, people want a stable business, support they can rely on and an infrastructure than can grow with their business.
You apparently never ran an IT department but read too much MSFT's PR.
Microsoft's support is well known to be one of the clumsiest (unless you are an extremely important customer to them).
Their licensing model also often limits the growth of the business.
Believe it or not, the world wants accountability and you don't get that with open source since the accountability falls squarely on your own resources in most cases.
That's silly. Accountability doesn't depend on software type. It does depend who's you have hired as a your integrator. There are plenty of integrators who would install and help you operate whatever software you wish to have - either closed source or open source.
Otherwise, good luck trying to keep MSFT accountable....
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
Microsoft is a company that cannot "let go" of anything. Take .NET for example -- it is a miserable failure that they won't let die.
A few web sites that use .NET technology:
Costco - http://www.costco.com/
Crate & Barrel - http://www.crateandbarrel.com/
Home Shopping Network - http://www.hsn.com/
Buy.com - http://www.buy.com/
Dell - http://www.dell.com/
Nasdaq - http://www.nasdaq.com/
Virgin - http://www.virgin.com/
7-Eleven - http://www.7-eleven.com/
Carnival Cruise Lines - http://www.carnival.com/
L'Oreal - http://www.loreal.com/
Remax - http://www.remax.com/
Monster Jobs - http://www.monster.com/
USA Today - http://www.usatoday.com/
ComputerJobs.com - http://computerjobs.com/
Match.com - http://www.match.com/
National Health Services (UK) - http://www.nhs.uk/
CarrerBuilder.com - http://www.careerbuilder.com/
Newegg http://newegg.com/
Geico http://geico.com/
Capital One http://capitalone.com/
Zecco http://zecco.com/
And that is just the tip of the iceberg.
Maybe you should tell all those sites that .NET is a miserable failure? Or if you were just (successfully) karmawhoring, I am sorry to interrupt the circle jerk on here.
This space for rent.