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
oCERT: Open Source Computer Emergency Response Team
Monday May 12, 2008Microsoft's Patch Tuesday will be upon us soon patching 3 critical and 1 moderate security problems. Security issues aren't just a problem for Microsoft software of course. And, I recently learned about... oCERT: Open Source Computer Emergency Response Team ...which… read more
Todd Ogasawara
Another Virtualization Option: No, not VMware, or Xen, or Virtual Server…
Sunday May 11, 2008Okay, actually, there are a number of virtualization options not listed in the title, but the one nobody seems to be talking much about Sun’s xVM VirtualBox. But, wait! you say, Sun begs to differ: “Sun xVM VirtualBox software is… read more
Dustin Puryear
Microsoft CodeBox: Lessons from the Open Source Community
Friday May 09, 2008There's an interesting four page PDF file that appeared recently on the Microsoft downloads site titled... Open Source at Microsoft CodeBox: Bringing the Open Source Approach In-House It answers the question: Could the community and collaborative concepts that underlie open… read more
Todd Ogasawara
Microsoft Windows now supports.. PAM!
Thursday May 08, 2008If you are at all familiar with the UNIX or Linux world, you will know about the Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) functionality. Essentially, PAM is a highly extensible login framework for authenticating and authorizing a user for access to a… read more
Dustin Puryear
MySQL Code, API, and Data Formats Are Open!
Wednesday May 07, 2008OK, I know this is NOT the Inside MySQL blog area. But, MySQL is the "M" in both LAMP and WAMP. And, as one of the people who wasn't very happy by MySQL's decision to close source parts of the… read more
Todd Ogasawara
Microsoft Needs to Promote Non-MS Open Source Projects
Monday May 05, 2008Michael Desmond raises an interesting point in an article in Redmond Developer News... Open Source and .NET Desmond acknowledges the IronPython/IronRuby work as well as Microsoft working with Zend on PHP and FastCGI. He quotes DotNetNuke's Bill Walker who told… read more
Todd Ogasawara
Microsoft PowerShell 2: Going Beyond its UNIX/Linux Insprirations
Friday May 02, 2008If there is one Microsoft product that openly gets inspiration from and gives credit to UNIX and GNU Linux/Open Source, it is Microsoft PowerShell. How open source has influenced Windows Server 2008 The PowerShell team is at the Microsoft Management… read more
Todd Ogasawara
MS-SQL Injection Attack.. Here we go again.
Thursday May 01, 2008I was just reading Michael Mimoso’s account of a new MS-SQL injection attack that is making the rounds. Sigh. The funny thing is that I was just talking to one of our consultants here at Puryear IT about.. SQL injection… read more
Dustin Puryear
Microsoft Integrating Some of OpenPegasus into its System Center Operations Manager
Wednesday April 30, 2008Microsoft's Sam Ramji posted a blog innocuously titled... Managing Towards Open Honestly, I might have passed over reading it except for the fact that I read this item over on Information Week first... Microsoft Uses Open Source To Extend Systems… read more
Todd Ogasawara
The MySQL Appliance
Tuesday April 29, 2008Well, this is nifty. A start-up named Kickfire has released a MySQL appliance. There is nothing “nifty” about a network appliance of course; that is, unless the appliance has specialized hardware and software to outperform a similarly configured in-house configured… read more
Dustin Puryear
