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Executive Member
From a colleauge:
Open Source Strategy at Microsoft
As Director of Platform Technology Strategy (official title), I run the
Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft, where we have hundreds of
physical and virtual servers running 40+ distributions of Linux, 12+ variant
of Unix, and several versions of Windows. The research projects we do
run from testing interoperability of network protocols like IPSEC and
IPv6 between Linux and and Windows technology, the user experience and
technical capabilities of HPC projects like ROCKS and Ganglia, to the
broader attributes like size of developer base and changes in the
development model for different Open Source projects.
We're also working with JBoss and SugarCRM on optimizing their open
source applications for Microsoft infrastructure like Windows Server and
SQL Server. This has been fun, rewarding work that has helped to
demonstrate the truth of our statements about working with Open Source.
Finally, I'm active in the Microsoft Shared Source Initiative, where I
am responsible for Technical Strategy. We are seeing some great work
from inside the company - teams from all product groups wanting to
contribute to Open Source in some way. This week, Microsoft launched
CodePlex in beta. CodePlex is a developer community infrastructure hosted by
Microsoft on behalf of Open Source developers - a place for code from
both Microsoft product teams and the community to reside and for the
developers themselves to collaborate. Currently a dozen projects are
there, ranging from IronPython to the Commerce Starter Kit.
URL : http://www.codeplex.com/
I have a new blog at http://port25.technet.com, a site we've built to
have a constructive dialog on Open Source, Interoperability, and
Microsoft.
Open Source Strategy at Microsoft
As Director of Platform Technology Strategy (official title), I run the
Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft, where we have hundreds of
physical and virtual servers running 40+ distributions of Linux, 12+ variant
of Unix, and several versions of Windows. The research projects we do
run from testing interoperability of network protocols like IPSEC and
IPv6 between Linux and and Windows technology, the user experience and
technical capabilities of HPC projects like ROCKS and Ganglia, to the
broader attributes like size of developer base and changes in the
development model for different Open Source projects.
We're also working with JBoss and SugarCRM on optimizing their open
source applications for Microsoft infrastructure like Windows Server and
SQL Server. This has been fun, rewarding work that has helped to
demonstrate the truth of our statements about working with Open Source.
Finally, I'm active in the Microsoft Shared Source Initiative, where I
am responsible for Technical Strategy. We are seeing some great work
from inside the company - teams from all product groups wanting to
contribute to Open Source in some way. This week, Microsoft launched
CodePlex in beta. CodePlex is a developer community infrastructure hosted by
Microsoft on behalf of Open Source developers - a place for code from
both Microsoft product teams and the community to reside and for the
developers themselves to collaborate. Currently a dozen projects are
there, ranging from IronPython to the Commerce Starter Kit.
URL : http://www.codeplex.com/
I have a new blog at http://port25.technet.com, a site we've built to
have a constructive dialog on Open Source, Interoperability, and
Microsoft.