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[News] Disaster at So-called Microsoft "Interop" Conference of Fluff

Interop : Open Source Panel Heckled and Walked Out On

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| About 15 minutes into the session an attendee shouted out,
| 
|     "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."    
| 
| [...]
| 
| 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.  
| 
| 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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