Archives
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Open Source OData Library for Objective-C Project Moves to Outercurve Foundation
As Microsoft continues to deliver on its commitment to Interoperability, I have good news on the Open Source Software front: today, the OData Library for Objective-C project was submitted to the Outercurve Foundation’s Data, Languages, and Systems Interoperability gallery.
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Full Support for PhoneGap on Windows Phone is Now Complete!
Congratulations to all the people involved in the PhoneGap community for the recent release of version 1.3 of their HTML5 open source mobile framework!
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GigaSpaces shows Java + Windows Azure
Today Microsoft is hosting the Learn Windows Azure broadcast event to demonstrate how easy it is for developers to get started with Windows Azure. Senior Microsoft executives like Scott Guthrie, Dave Campbell, Mark Russinovich and others will show how easy it is to build scalable cloud applications using Visual Studio. The event is be broadcasting live and will also be available on-demand.
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Openness Update for Windows Azure
As Microsoft’s Senior Director of Open Source Communities, I couldn’t be happier to share with you today an update on a wide range of Open Source developments on Windows Azure.
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SQL Database Federations: Enhancing SQL to enable Data Sharding for Scalability in the Cloud
I am thrilled to announce the availability of a new specification called SQL Database Federations, which describes additional SQL capabilities that enable data sharding (horizontal partitioning of data) for scalability in the cloud.
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Preview Release of the SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux Hits the Streets
Microsoft's SQL Server team yesterday announced the availability of a preview release of the SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux, which allows native developers to access Microsoft SQL Server from Linux operating systems.
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jQuery Mobile Open Source Framework Support for Windows Phone
Hello web and mobile developers!
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First Stable Build of Nodejs on Windows Released
Great news for all Node.js developers wanting to use Windows: today we reached an important milestone - v0.6.0 – which is the first official stable build that includes Windows support.
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Microsoft, Hadoop and Big Data
In a couple of weeks it will be my one year anniversary here at Microsoft and I couldn’t wish for a better anniversary gift: now that Microsoft has laid out its roadmap for Big Data, I’m really excited about the role that Apache HadoopTM plays in this.
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Open Source Community Participation at Think Tank Paris and Open World Forum
I recently returned from Paris, where I attended both the annual Open Source Think Tank and Open World Forum events. It was really great getting to chat with some of the folks representing the myriad of businesses that have sprung up around Open Source solutions, and having some in-depth discussions about broad industry trends.
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OpenNebula Clouds on Windows Server Hyper-V
More good news on Microsoft's commitment to Interoperability in the cloud: last week Sandy Gupta, the General Manager for Microsoft's Open Solutions Group, announced that Windows Server Hyper-V is now an officially supported hypervisor for OpenNebula.
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Community Participation
I'm heading off to Paris this weekend to participate in the annual Open Source Think Tank and Open World Forum events held in that wonderful city next week.
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Microsoft and China's CS2C Sign Cross-Platform Collaboration Agreement
Microsoft today signed a collaboration agreement with China Standard Software Corporation (CS2C), the country’s leading domestic Linux operating system provider, to jointly develop, market and sell solutions for the cloud-computing market in China.
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Microsoft at OSCON 2011: We have become more open, let’s work together!
Gianugo Rabelino, Microsoft’s Senior Director for Open Source Communities, just finished delivering his keynote at OSCON in Portland.
As Gianugo is now wandering around the OSCON session and expo floor, I thought it would we useful to give you a quick recap of what he just presented. -
Windows Azure Supports NIST Use Cases using Java
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Microsoft working with Joyent and the Node community to bring Node.js to Windows
I am pleased to announce that Microsoft has joined Joyent and Ryan Dahl in their effort to make Windows a supported platform in Node.
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New SDK and Sample Kit demonstrates how to leverage the scalability of Windows Azure with PHP
From the floor of the PHP Tek Conference in Chicago, with my colleague Peter Laudati, we’re excited to announce the availability of the Windows Azure SDK for PHP version 3.0. This Open Source SDK gives PHP developers a “speed dial” library to take full advantage of Windows Azure’s coolest features. On top of many improvements and bug fixes for this version (see the list from Maarten Balliauw’s preview), we’re particularly excited about the new service management possibilities and the new logging infrastructure.
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Expanding Interoperability to Community Linux
Micrsoft announced today that, with immediate effect, it will support Windows Server2008 R2 Hyper-V running CentOS, a popular Linux distribution for hosters.
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The .Net Gadgeteer Goes Open Source
Today Microsoft Open Sourced the reference designs to the .Net Gadgeteer, a rapid prototyping, education/hobbyist kit built on the .NET Micro Framework.
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WordPress on Windows Azure: A discussion with Morten Rand-Hendriksen
I finally had the chance to sit down with Morten at MIX11 in Las Vegas last week to discuss the work he is doing on WordPress with Windows Azure to solve some common challenges with multi-site WordPress installations using traditional hosting.
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MIX11 Recap
In case you missed the great Open Source and related Interop news that came out of Microsoft's annual MIX conference which was held in Las Vegas this week, here's a recap.
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Open Source + Southern Hospitality
I spent the entire week last week enjoying some good weather and southern hospitality in the Carolinas. On Tuesday Mar 15 I had the pleasure of being invited to present at the Charlotte Enterprise Developers Guild organized by Bill Jones (special thanks to SystemTec for sponsoring the evening). On arrival I found the best dressed group of developers I have seen in a long time and felt compelled to apologize for my jeans and Converse. They sure keep it classy down South – something us Northwesterners could probably stand to learn from.
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.NET Rocks! Chats with Jean Paoli
For those of you who love .Net and have an interest in Web standards and Interoperability at Microsoft, then listening to the interview with Jean Paoli, the General Manager of Interoperability Strategy at Microsoft, with .NET Rocks!, is a must.
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Latest WebSockets Release Interoperates with Firefox, Eclipse's Jetty
by Peter Galli on March 11, 2011 01:23pm
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Python Tools for Visual Studio go to Beta
by Peter Galli on March 10, 2011 05:20pm
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Yes, You Can do Open Source on Windows Phone
by Gianugo Rabellino on March 08, 2011 09:38am
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Greater Interoperability for Windows Customers With HTML5 Video
by Claudio Caldato on February 02, 2011 06:05am
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Chemistry Add-In for Word v1 Hits the Street
by Peter Galli on February 01, 2011 09:40am
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A Roundtable Discussion with Gianugo Rabellino
by Peter Galli on January 27, 2011 07:00am