IBM Builds Open Source Momentum With OEM Agreement and New Customers
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| WAS CE, which is free to download and use, is pre-integrated with Apache
| Tomcat and several most commonly used open source components, such as web
| services, security, authentication, messaging, and web tier clustering.
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http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23442.wss
Microsoft Partnerships, Open Source Software ISVs, and Culture and History
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| Last week, Mary Jo Foley offered commentary on Microsoft's open source
| software strategy with respect to independent software vendors based on an
| interview with Microsoft's Sam Ramji. Matt Asay provides good colour
| commentary on his blog. Each post focuses on the trustworthiness and
| competitive history of the company. Let's look at things from a different
| perspective.
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http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2008/02/microsoft-partn.html
Related:
Microsoft’s open-source strategy: A picture is worth a thousand words
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| Microsoft is looking at open-source software (OSS) as just another flavor of
| independent software vendors (ISV) software. Microsoft’s goal is to convince
| OSS vendors to port their software to Windows. But Microsoft doesn’t want OSS
| software to just sit on top of Windows; the company wants this software to be
| tied into the Windows ecosystem by integrating with Active Directory,
| Microsoft Office, Expression designer tools, System Center systems-management
| wares and SQL Server database.
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| In cases where customers and software vendors want/need Linux to still be
| part of the picture for some reason, Microsoft will suggest they use Hyper-V,
| its forthcoming virtualization hypervisor, to run Linux and Linux-dependent
| applications.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1142
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