Daily Archives: 24 February 2008
Yahoo could be behind Microsoft’s “interest” for open source !
What do you get if you couple an email from Kevin Johnson, Microsoft president of the company Platforms & Services Division, to employees about the Yahoo deal and the software giant’s pledge to be more interoperable with the open source world? One big moment to prove Microsoft is serious about this interoperability thing. Yahoo could … Continue reading
Microsoft launches student Java and LAMP challenge
University computer science departments are rapidly becoming Microsoft-free zones, as Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) combine with Java to become the de-facto standard environment for students of programming. Microsoft knows from history that this will be fatal in the long term, hence its decision to extend free availability of core development tools to students. … Continue reading
