Inside Port 25: Open Source at Microsoft
Port 25 is home to the open source community at Microsoft. Today, this represents an open conversation dedicated to Linux, Windows, and open source interoperability between Microsoft business and technical leaders and the industry. In partnership with O'Reilly, Inside Port 25 takes that dialogue into the community for an objective, outsider's perspective on open source research, insights, and industry trends.
Port 25 Featured Video
Allison Randal on Open Source
Video: Allison Randal on Open Source
Allison Randal discusses the importance of participation in the open source community and her perspective on where Microsoft sits relative to the principle that everyone deserves to participate.
For more video and podcast community interviews, go to our media page on Port25.com.
Contributing Bloggers
The Open Source Community
Friday August 08, 2008Robert Bruner has an excellent blog about the challenges facing management. I read the article and, generally, I have to agree with his view. As a quick list, here are the items Robert noted: • Ubiquitous mobile connectivity and computing. • Growing interactivity. • Spreading… read more
Dustin Puryear
Licensing Gives Linux the Edge over Windows in the Virtualization Battle
Friday August 08, 2008There's been a lot of interesting product wars over the years: WordPerfect vs. Word, 1-2-3 vs. Excel, Harvard Presentation Manager vs. PowerPoint, Novell vs. Windows NT, Netscape vs. Internet Explorer, Palm OS vs. Windows Mobile, and the list goes on… read more
Todd Ogasawara
Novell Ain’t the Bad Guy
Thursday August 07, 2008It’s in all the news of course: IBM is collaborating with Red Hat and Novell to offer “Microsoft-free” PCs. That’s not news (at least not in the blogosphere, which has had the story for a few days now). However, the… read more
Dustin Puryear
Samba 3.2.1 Released with Enhanced Windows Server 2003/2008 Support
Wednesday August 06, 2008The Samba Team released version 3.2.1 on August 5. It includes a bunch of bug patches for the version 3.2 released on July 1. In addition to IPv6 support (has anyone deployed IPv6 seriously and widely???), the release notes indicates… read more
Todd Ogasawara
Matthew Paul Thomas: Why Free Software has poor usability, and how to improve it
Monday August 04, 2008I have no idea who Matthew Paul Thomas is even after Google-ing (um, that should be using Google to search for more information) his name and learning he lives in New Zealand and has written some very interesting blog entires.… read more
Todd Ogasawara
Microsoft Sponsors Apache
Friday August 01, 2008Ooh, now this is cool: Microsoft is now a contributing member of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). This does not mean that Microsoft is just talking the talk; they are actually putting up money to help support the management and… read more
Dustin Puryear
Popular Open Source Projects Based on .Net? Part 2
Friday August 01, 2008On Wednesday, I asked about: Popular Open Source Projects Based on .Net? A bunch of people provided information about Open Source .Net projects I was unaware of. So, I decided to summarize the projects mentioned in response to my question… read more
Todd Ogasawara
Associate General Counsel for Intellectual Property Policy at Microsoft
Thursday July 31, 2008TechNet Port25 has a short little blog from Richard Wilder, the... *draws breath* Associate General Counsel for Intellectual Property Policy at Microsoft. First off, that is a very long title. I wonder when I will get one of those. Anyway,… read more
Dustin Puryear
Popular Open Source Projects Based on .Net?
Wednesday July 30, 2008What are the big Open Source projects based on or intertwined with the Microsoft .Net Framework? I knew of a couple of projects. But, I had a hard time getting beyond my personal recollections when I searched using Google in… read more
Todd Ogasawara
IronRuby Alpha Release Binary Download Available
Monday July 28, 2008Microsoft's John Lam announced the availability of ready-to-use binaries of the IronRuby alpha-release at OSCON last week. You can read more about it in his blog at... IronRuby at OSCON You can find the ZIP file download at... RubyForge IronRuby… read more
Todd Ogasawara
