Interop : Open Source Panel Heckled and Walked Out On
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| About 15 minutes into the session an attendee shouted out,
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| "When are you going to talk about risk instead of just going back and
| forth talking about risks and benefits of open source?" the attendee
| shouted. "We're not here for the benefits, I don't want to insult you but
| that's not why I'm in here and if you're not going to take my question
| I'm going to walk out."
|
| [...]
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| I've personally never seen anything like this. To be fair though the panel
| did seem to be all 'open source is great' but they did (Doug Levin in
| particular) talk about the risks that may exist.
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| Also to be fair though, all the panelists were in the open source business.
| That's how the program was listed in the program guide. If Interop really
| wanted a more robust/competitive session they could/should have added
| Microsoft to the panel.
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/04/interop-open-source-panel-heck.html
Priceless! The leeches and freeloaders are not welcome.
Yesterday:
Microsoft Trojan Horse Part Duex: System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross
Platform Extensions and Connectors
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| After thinking for a bit, I then realize this is the exact same corporate
| strategy Microsoft has pursued with Active Directory. Release a trojan horse
| into a corporation by making an inferior, arguably broken, operating system,
| Windows, that won’t work with anything else, or follow the same standards,
| and then release a steaming pile of bandages, duck tape, glue, and well…poo,
| and make everyone authenticate against it while charging an expensive
| licensing fee.
|
| We have active bot nets that rivel NASA in pure computing power due to
| boneheaded Operating System design...
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http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/04/microsoft_trojan_horse_part_du.html
Interoperability: First Benefit Microsoft
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| The way I see it, interoperability is for Microsoft a means to an end, the
| end being competitive gains more than customer benefits. Microsoft is the
| first beneficiary of its interoperability efforts. The new management tools
| clearly show what interoperability really means to Microsoft: increasing its
| footprint in heterogenous platform environments. That's going to be most
| important in established markets like the United States, where most companies
| that need servers have them already.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/server/interoperability_first_benefit_microsoft.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
Microsoft, openness, and oxymorons
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| Let's compare this openness pledge to Microsoft's reality with Sharepoint, as
| but one example. If you want to use Microsoft's Sharepoint, you must use
| Microsoft's SQL Server, Windows, Office, IIS, Active Directory, etc. It also
| works much better with Internet Explorer, and is crippled in Firefox, Safari,
| etc.
|
| Are we to assume that Microsoft has seen the light and is now embracing
| openness as its salvation? Not likely.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9932463-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Recent:
Interoperability for the other 90 percent of the world
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| With all the talk about interoperability rumbling around, I thought a quick
| sanity check would be in order. Vendors are fond of talking about
| interoperability, but myopia-challenged as we are, we tend to forget that
| most software is not developed by vendors. It's developed by
| so-called "customers."
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9929021-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
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