Posted by: Anonymous
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on August 05, 2008 12:00 PM
I have their (Microsofts) presentation on Open Source Strategy and yes, they want to move the devs to the Windows platform. They claim that 60% of all Sourceforge projects "run on windows" so Windows is the most successfull platform for OS/FS. Their strategy is to ease the life of developers by offering simple access to Exchange, MS-SQL, Sharepoint, etc.
Which OTOH means that the Linux ecosystems should also look at better integration and more standardized access to infastructure elements as LDAP, Kerberos, SQL, mail, calendaring etc.
If you want to beat Microsoft here, you should all promote Open Standards for such access. Only with open standards (see http://www.digistan.org for a good definition) you create a level playing field, freed from vendor lock-in.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 217.111.50.179] on August 05, 2008 12:00 PMWhich OTOH means that the Linux ecosystems should also look at better integration and more standardized access to infastructure elements as LDAP, Kerberos, SQL, mail, calendaring etc.
If you want to beat Microsoft here, you should all promote Open Standards for such access. Only with open standards (see http://www.digistan.org for a good definition) you create a level playing field, freed from vendor lock-in.
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