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Check out Sam Ramji's post on port 25, ' history.foward() '. As per his keynote today at OSCON, he outlines some new developments around Microsoft's support for open source interoperability: ADOdb contributions to support PHP connectivity to SQL Server
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I hate that I missed Bill's keynote at CES, but this article provides a solid recap of some interesting philosophy on the future of technology and how we use it to drive the connected experience. Coming from the wireless space, I am very comfortable with
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Today marks a very important day on interoperability for Microsoft. Following a series of events that include the Open Specification Promise , the Interoperability Executive Customer Council , the Interoperability Vendor Alliance , and of course our partnership
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If you have 30 minutes and are keenly interested in how Microsoft's new Open Specification Promise works, check out this video at Channel 9. Included in the clip are Jean Paoli, General Manager of Interoperability & XML Architecture; Tom Robertson,
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This morning Zend and Microsoft announced a technical collaboration to drive improved performance for running PHP on Windows Server. Having worked with both technologies on multiple projects, I think this is timely and a great effort toward improved interoperability
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It wasn't a month ago that IBM announced a sweeping patent reform strategy that - if adopted - "could help curb the rising wave of patent disputes and patent litigation" as reported over at seekingalpha.com . For further reading, you can download a pdf
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...Or how well it works together. Its really about how well we connect people, data, and diverse systems to make processes more efficient right? It should not matter what the pieces are. Leave the choice of configuration to those who best know what they
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I found this post over at ipblog.org which puts in perspective how Big Blue really thinks about open source software: So Much for IBM’s Commitment to Open Source . In all fairness their business model doesn’t surprise me at all. With an emphasis on growth
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Furthering our commitment to working broadly with the IT community to drive interoperability, Microsoft announced an Open Specification Promise this morning to make a number of web service specs freely available to the development community. Follow the
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First Open Movie… I have been fascinated by open source technology and business models for some time - the following caught my attention recently. Earlier this year, a small team of CG developers and animators, working as part of what is known as the
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…Go along way. And we see the results of such efforts paying off in a big way for the government of Massachusetts who decided earlier this week to leverage a new openDocument Format converter built for Microsoft Office. You may remember that, a few months
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Writing in from Berlin, where I just saw some great news on the wire... We often discuss interoperability in terms of technology which, in and of itself, drives intense debate about best practices. Open source proponents posit that interoperability is
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