May 12, 2009
The Stonehenge incubator project is approaching its first milestone: deploying the first set of samples and making them work together. This is a really exciting development and continues to deliver on the project's primary goal: to provide practical applications...
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Tags: PHP~FeaturedPostInteropCommunityDynamic LanguagesPeter GalliJavaWindows Server
May 11, 2009
Howdy, I've been working for many months with Pierre Joye - well, really many people in the PHP community - on getting PHP to run faster on Windows. Pierre has been working rapidly on upgrading libraries (Pierre pioneered the work to get PHP and its hoard...
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Tags: PHP~FeaturedPostCommunityDynamic LanguagesGarrett SerackWindows Server
May 06, 2009
Microsoft will announce on May 7 an initiative to help government agencies and developers publish and interact with their data in Windows Azure, the company's cloud computing platform. One of these is the Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI), a cloud...
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Tags: PHP~FeaturedPostInteropCommunityDynamic LanguagesPartnershipsPeter GalliStandardsCodeplex
Apr 02, 2009
Microsoft is embarking on a 15-city road show to help customers learn more about available solutions that may address their unique interoperability needs. This is just another of the many ways Microsoft continues to respond to customers working in heterogeneous...
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Mar 25, 2009
On Monday Microsoft and SD Forum held the 3rd annual Open Source ISV Forum. In a day of interesting talks, I was particularly struck by Larry Augustin's talk. As an emphasizing example of the growth of open source projects partnered with a commercial...
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Mar 10, 2009
I was fortunate enough to spend last Thursday with a group of LAMP engineers who have some experience with Windows Server and IIS, and who are based in Japan. The three - Kimio Tanaka, the president of Museum IN Cloud; Junpei Hosoda, the president of...
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Jan 16, 2009
Congratulations to the PHP community on its PHP 5.3 alpha 2 release in December. In roughly one month, there have been over 80,000 downloads of the alpha 2 release from unique IP addresses. You can see that interest in PHP on Windows is growing significantly...
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Tags: PHP~FeaturedPostInteropCommunityOpen SourceAppTom HanrahanPartnerships
Jan 06, 2009
Over the past year, Microsoft has stepped up its participation in initiatives supporting Free and Open Source Software projects like Apache, Samba , and PHP . The company has also been working more closely with the PHP community, sponsoring PHP events...
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