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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...