Microsoft, Joomla, Hadoop – why are they even together?
Some might say hell has definitely frozen over. Microsoft has signed the Joomla contributor agreement, making them developers of one of the most popular open source CMS products. Oh, and it’s their most relevant GPLv2 contribution so far, too.
Check out the post on the Joomla Leadership blog. It’s a fairly levelheaded and balanced discussion of [...]
May 4, 2010
Tags: Hadoop, Joomla, open source, strategy Posted in: General 
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OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office: A serious threat for the empire?
The blog world is abuzz on a Microsoft job posting. The US subsidiary looking for a “Linux and Open Office Compete Lead” – and a team of 13 people – seems to signal a meaty victory for the OS crowd, as it implies Microsoft is taking OpenOffice seriously. Or does it?
As I pointed out in [...]
January 5, 2010
Tags: competition, open source Posted in: General No Comments