Microsoft continues to express its commitment to open-source software, most recently at EclipseCon and the Open Source Business Conference.
– Microsoft continues to express its commitment to open-source software, most
recently at EclipseCon and the Open Source Business Conference.
At EclipseCon, held March 22 to 25, Microsoft joined Tasktop Technologies, which
it described in an October announcement as quot;a leading Eclipse-based sol…
The sixth annual Open Source Business Conference opened March 17 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco and will present two full days of seminars, keynotes and networking opportunities. MindTouch, an open source-based analytics and collaborative networking software maker, came out on the first day with a list of who it deems to be the Most Powerful Voices in Open Source. These are the most prominent and followed open source commentators, representing several spheres of influence including media, vendors, OSS projects, standards bodies, community management and more, MindTouch said. The ranking draws from an array of metrics available through Web and Enterprise 2.0 channels, including Twitter, Google News alerts, unique online visitor counts and analysis of the related ‘buzz’ of vendor/project affiliations. The data itself was compiled using the MindTouch platform, which federated these data sources, applying varied weighting, and processing it for delivery of the ranking, MindTouch said. In no particular order, here is the Top 20 list — plus a blog by Mark Fidelman explaining how they were selected.
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By including the new Red Hat virtualization-layer offering, IBM is making available another option for IT systems that didn’t exist previously.
– Red Hat, whose CEO, Jim Whitehurst,
delivered the opening
keynote of this week’s Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco,
revealed March 16 that IBM has selected Red
Hat’s Enterprise Virtualization platform for its new cloud computing service
for development and test.
Last June, IBM…
Microsoft will be active at the Open Source Business Conference, acting as a sponsor and providing a keynote speaker. The software giant is continuing its drive to position itself as an ally of open source and to support open-source projects on Windows.
– Microsoft plans to make a substantial showing at the upcoming Open
Source Business Conference, in a continuation of the software giant’s
campaign to make nice with open source and support open-source projects on
Windows.
In a blog post, Peter
Galli, open-source community manager at Microsoft, l…
