June 2007 - Posts

Tom Hanrahan, Novell, Linspire, Xandros & Interoperability
29 June 07 10:28 PM | AdamW | 1 Comments   

So for those of you who read Port 25 , this is old news . However I just wanted to echo Sam Ramji's welcome for Tom Hanrahan as our new Director of Linux Interoperability. Clearly Tom will have lots to do with our continuing work with Novell as well as Read More...

Filed under: Interoperability, Open Source, Linux

OpenLDAP – Milestone 1 Release Scheduled for 6/29/07
27 June 07 09:40 PM | AdamW | 0 Comments   

We're in the home stretch getting the OpenLDAP Management Agent prepped and ready for our Milestone 1 release this Friday. The release should contain an installable MSI (remember you need to have MIIS/ILM installed on the same machine) and a zip with Read More...

Filed under: Interoperability, Identity, Protocols, OpenLDAP

Interoperability Summary
21 June 07 07:10 PM | AdamW | 1 Comments   

Dan'l Lewin recently authored a post at AlwaysOn that I thought was an interesting read - it summarized Microsoft's history of interoperability and cross-platform support, and broke down our existing investments in interoperability into the 4 primary Read More...

Filed under: Interoperability, Web Services

OpenXML – the inertia is building
20 June 07 10:24 PM | AdamW | 0 Comments   

HP just announced their support for the OpenXML file format as a standard in a position statement on their website. The thing that really caught my attention was HP's position that both OpenXML and ODF can "co-exist interoperably" and "customer's should Read More...

Filed under: Interoperability, OpenXML

Orthogonal Interoperability – Kerberos and DNS
08 June 07 11:14 PM | AdamW | 0 Comments   

OK, maybe I'm way behind the ball here but I thought I'd share a funny story from implementing the OpenLDAP management agent project . The OpenLDAP interaction is based on the LDAP support in System.DirectoryServices.Protocols in the .Net Framework (version Read More...

Filed under: Interoperability, Protocols, OpenLDAP

OpenXML Developer Tools Growing
05 June 07 02:26 AM | AdamW | 1 Comments   

I was reading Brian Jones' post this morning on the Open XML SDK tech preview which is a new managed .Net API for programming against the Open XML formats that was announced today at TechEd. There is also a channel 9 interview on the OpenXML formats and Read More...

Filed under: Interoperability, OpenXML

Identity Interoperability Update
05 June 07 01:29 AM | AdamW | 0 Comments   

A couple of interesting updates from around the Identity interoperability world: Positive Response to our Identity Announcements! I posted last week on Microsoft's Identity interoperability announcements at the Interop Las Vegas conference and overall Read More...

Filed under: Interoperability, Identity, Web Services, OpenLDAP