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Sam Ramji has his head in the clouds

Ramji has gone from Microsoft, where everything is defined and the fight is continuous, to Sonoa Systems, where nothing is defined and contention is nebulous. It's more wide-open and, he says, more fun. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, Sam Ramji, Ramji

Blog posts 2009-11-04

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What would make you trust Microsoft?

Flame on!Let me save a couple people the time of posting"Microsoft is the most evil thing on earth and should be destroyed" - Linux Geek, Ole Man, D.T, No More Microsoft Software ...."I trust Microsoft with my life" - Mike Cox, Loverock, ... "They are a company. I trust them...

Tags: SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., extremist, open source, MHD

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

News to know: Intel; Microsoft layoffs; Motorola, Palm; Oracle-Sun; MSN

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: New York AG files antitrust charges against Intel; alleges bribery, coercion Mary Jo Foley: Are the Microsoft...

Tags: Layoff, MSN, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Motorola Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Storage, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Data Management

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Is Microsoft's GPL2 support really a big deal?

Microsoft's decison to release 20,000 lines of device driver code under GPLv2 is viewed as a big deal but not that surprising given the context. After all, the only technology Microsoft fears more than Linux is VMware's bare-metal virtualization platform. The release of the three device drivers...

Tags: Device Driver, Microsoft Corp., GPL 2, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-07-21

Microsoft Money Just Wants to Be Free

Microsoft is abandoning its personal finance software, Microsoft Money, after over 16 years of development and marketing. But why abandon perfectly good software when it could be released to the community as an Open Source project? This week, Microsoft announced its...

Tags: Be Free, Microsoft Money, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Personal Finance, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-12

Have we arrived in the post-Windows era?

Have we arrived in the post-Windows era?YepThe law of diminishing returns applies and the world moves on. Now to see some really innovative technology, who knows where it might come from but I seriously doubt it will be MS. Just like Sony ruled the world with the walkman (now the...

Tags: Word processors, Operating systems, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., post-Windows era, post-Windows

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

Microsoft: Economy putting a damper on migrations to and from open source

Microsoft: Economy putting a damper on migrations to and from open sourceWhat can they say?No doubt they are seeing very flat sales at best, and this is simply part of the "get wall street ready" series where they will purport that EVERYTHING is down. That said, their study is...

Tags: open source, Microsoft Corp., damper, migration, International Data Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-03-24

OIN: Microsoft lawsuit won't slow Linux's lead in mobile market

Microsoft's lawsuit against TomTom is aimed at Linux but it won't deter the open source operating system's success in the mobile device market, said Open Invention Network's CEO. Open Invention Network CEO Keith Bergelt doesn't buy Microsoft's contention that the lawsuit, filed last week, is not targeting...

Tags: Lawsuit, Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-03-02

Microsoft's Dana Perino problem with open source

Microsoft's Dana Perino problem with open sourceDoing some campaining for the Democrats today?As all I see is you using your technical blog as a way to talk down the Republicans, maybe "help the cause" a bit?Oh well, I guess anyone that has to beg for a free Linux laptop might...

Tags: Linux, Dana Perino, Dana Perino problem, Dana, open source, Microsoft Corp., laptop computer

Discussion threads 2008-07-31

Will Bill Gates' departure usher in open source friendly era at Microsoft?

Will Microsoft become more open to open source with the departure of Bill Gates? It’s a tough call. Observers from both the open and closed source worlds say the exit of Microsoft’s longtime leader won’t usher in a GPL era at the company but it will likely...

Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-06-26

Maybe I was wrong about Mac Servers

After reading ZDNet storage majordomo Robin Harris' post this morning  I couldn't help but ponder the implications of Macs having a native implementation of Sun's ZFS network scalable file system in the latest versions of Mac OS X Snow Leopard client and Snow Leopard Server. Finally, a compelling reason to...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Storage, Server, ZFS, Parallels, Desktops, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-06-20

Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violation

After outcry from various constituencies over the past couple of days, Microsoft has pulled from its CodePlex site its Sandcastle project for failure to comply with the terms and conditions required in order to be qualify as bona-fide open source. Sandcastle is a documentation compiler for managed...

Tags: OSI, Open Source Initiative, Microsoft Corp., Sandcastle, Open Source, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-06-06

Is Microsoft's open systems promise reliable?

I caught this article the other day on InfoWeek, where Nancy Gohring discussed Microsoft's new-ish open systems policy. As noted in the article, it's easy to view Microsoft's new stance with a certain amount of skepticism: But Microsoft may have a way to go to placate a market that...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Antitrust, Microsoft Corp., Corporate Law, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-05-29

Jinkies! Microsoft's 2015 open source strategy

2015? (Spit take.) 20-ohmygoodness-15? The new head of Microsoft's open source effort, senior director of platform strategy Sam Ramji, now says that the company will have a coherent open source strategy by 2015? Jinkies, even John McCain now says he can...

Tags: Strategy, Microsoft Corp., Open Source Strategy, Strategy Sam Ramji, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-19

PenguinPolitik: Only Ballmer could go to Linux

In my previous post about last week's Microsoft Technology Summit, I talked a little bit about the structure of the event and the overtures that Microsoft seems to be making towards the Open Source community. Some of my esteemed industry colleagues feel that Microsoft is never to be trusted, that...

Tags: Steve Ballmer, File System, Microsoft Corp., Glasnost, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-04-02

Microsoft Meets Open Source: Glasnost 2.0

Last week I spent two days on campus in Redmond with about 40 of my industry colleagues at the Microsoft Technology Summit, an annual invite-only event where Microsoft selects a swath of people from all over the world -- key technology influencers -- to learn about what the company is...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-03-31

Microsoft partners with open source JasperSoft, Sourcesense

Microsoft and JasperSoft are working together to ensure that Jasper's business intelligence software suite runs well on the latest editions of Windows and SQL Server. At the Open Source Business Conference at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, Microsoft told ZDNet that the open source BI software...

Tags: JasperSoft, Partnership, ISV, Apache Software Foundation, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-03-25

EclipseCon 2008: Fake Steve Jobs, Microsoft, E4, and more

EclipseCon 2008 opens Monday at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara CA. The schedule for the week includes a trio of interesting keynote speakers, a ton of technical sessions, and a tinge of controversy over the future of Eclipse development. The first day will be...

Tags: Steve Jobs, EclipseCon, Microsoft Corp., Eclipse, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-03-16

Windows Server 2008's ode to open source

Windows Server 2008 was released last Wednesday, the next generation in a product notable for its performance, stability and security.  It's predecessor, Windows Server 2003, experienced strong sales growth, accounting for over half of the operating systems pre-installed on all servers shipped. Many of its features, such as the ability to create UI-free...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Open Source, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-03-03

Countering the Microsoft cynics

Microsoft announced today plans to expand its interoperability principles, committing itself to higher standards of openness and portability in pursuit of interoperability nirvana. Fellow blogger Mary Jo Foley was skeptical, noting that Microsoft has said as much in the past, and since then made noises about patents it...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Open Source Movement, Iso standards, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Corporate Law, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Emerging Technologies, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-02-21