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Re: [News] Microsoft Demonstrates Its technology on Linux

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> Microsoft Not a Cathedral; Open Source Not a Bazaar
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | It's not every day that you see a Microsoft employee demonstrating
> | Microsoft software running natively on Linux. Yet that's exactly
> | what happened at AJAXWorld here, as Brad Abrams, group program
> | manager at Microsoft for ASP.NET AJAX (codenamed Atlas) did today.
> `----

Yes but did their software have the potential
to crash and burn and does it have
hidden APIs that open source developers will not be
given access to?

Most probably yes.

I would steer clear of ANY micoshaft products - even if it
runs in dos.

<snif>


> http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3667066
> 
> Microsoft joins OpenAjax Alliance
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | With Microsoft, OpenAjax has now pretty much attained critical mass
> | in the vendor community. Boloker now wants to boost membership among
> | users and organizations outside the US.
> `----
> 
> http://www.cbronline.com
article_news.asp?guid=3EAC58B2-BDF8-4D05-9336-33E870AC8E38
> 
> A lot of this technology is Linux-hostile (according to one source), but
> it's still a win for Open Source. Microsoft has for a long time avoided
> the prolific OpenAjax Alliance, hoping it can walk the purely proprietary
> route instead (no interoperability and platform independence).


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