Microsoft’s open-source strategy: A picture is worth a thousand words

Does Microsoft have an open-source strategy  beyond finding new ways to thwart Linux and other non-proprietary wares?
Sam Ramji, Microsoft’s Director of Platform Technology Strategy and the company’s Open Source Software Lab, says it does.
Ramji and other Microsoft officials have been saying for the past year-plus that Microsoft is signing technology agreements with companies like Novell, BEA, Sun, XenSource, etc. because it wants to help their customers who are struggling with running open-source software alongside Microsoft software