Story here !
Other than wanting to run a business has Microsoft ever really truly had a problem with Open Source?
Well may be at the Management level but perhaps not at the coal face, may be this feeling has filtered up.
Anyway interesting to discuss ...
Try not flame people ! THX
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Sabot
My name is Dave Oliver. I'm a Technical Architect.
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W3bbo
Work hard; increase production; prevent accidents, and be happy.
So does this mean SQL Server will run on BSD or not?
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mwherman2000
Michael Herman (Parallelspace)
My apologies for this test posting. The RSS feed for this forum appears to be broken. Posted Wed Oct. 5, 2005
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Tom Servo
W-hat?
I want Office 12 on FreeBSD.
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sbc
GW R/Me
W3bbo wrote:So does this mean SQL Server will run on BSD or not?
Doubt it, but I am sure if they did release tools for Linux, people would buy them.
Imagine a Visual Studio that used Mono? Developers would really like that, but I don't see it happening.
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manickernel
anticipate consequences..
To the extent that Open Source enhances the ability to achieve Microsoft's goal of 'Interoperability' I believe you will see evidence of continued 'code transparency'. I also think this objective is one that is being overlooked in it's overall importance by most of the media. I certainly welcome it.
Microsoft's Interoperability Strategy
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rjdohnert
You will never know success until you know failure
It had to happen sooner or later. I think ultimately Windows 2000 users will be the ones to adopt Open Source desktop applications at least more than Vista or XP users will.
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Charles
Welcome Change
mwherman2000 wrote:My apologies for this test posting. The RSS feed for this forum appears to be broken. Posted Wed Oct. 5, 2005
http://channel9.msdn.com/rss.aspx?threadID=123929 works fine for me. Can you elaborate on what you mean by "broken"?
Thanks!
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More embracing of OpenSource from Microsoft:
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rjdohnert
You will never know success until you know failure
Never considered Microsoft an enemy to Open Source, I considered them an enemy to Linux but never Open Source in general.
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Sabot
My name is Dave Oliver. I'm a Technical Architect.
rjdohnert wrote:Never considered Microsoft an enemy to Open Source, I considered them an enemy to Linux but never Open Source in general.
It would seem that Microsoft are more than capable of evaluating this stance as well and why not? as it seems the message on TCO is getting through, so Linux successes are in the data-centre which isn't a market that Microsoft has dominated. Linux has made very little gain in the Desktop market and according to Gartner may not for a few years yet.
So the point I'm making is that why not embrace Linux?
I can see the first Microsoft official piece of software for Linux (and/or Unix) would be the .Net framework!
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