Yesterday, Microsoft made major announcements during the event OSCON 2009 taking place these days in California. This event is a must for the open source community and also for companies involved in this particular context of the market.
read an important announcement during Microsoft OSCON 2009 is not news to every day, even if some time in Redmond is also watching with interest all'opensource with particular reference to interoperability. But yesterday, the Redmond has reached a landmark by providing 20,000 lines of code in the GPL2 the community that is developing the Linux kernel. Microsoft
then enters into contact with the heart of the open source community - the developers of the Linux kernel - and decides to submit to the rules of others by accepting a license is not just the usual profile Redmond: the GPL2.
More specifically, Microsoft has released three device drivers that allow an optimal dialogue between a linux virtual machine hypervisor and Windows Server 2008. With the three new drivers entered directly into the official branch of the linux kernel all distributions will be in a position to work seamlessly with Windows Server 2008. Previously, however, the virtual instances with Linux could already be used with Microsoft Hyper-V but with a lower power level, so said Tom Hanrahan, head of Microsoft's Open Source Technology Center.
With this release Microsoft provides its partners and customers a further possibility, it will be possible manage Linux virtual machine with the same tools used for Windows based solutions, even knowing that they can count on a high level of optimization, the appearance in the interests of performance. The decision to adopt the GPL2 was not taken lightly by Microsoft and this is easily explained for a company that bases its business model on the development and sale of software. But the goal was important and this time Microsoft has agreed to play by the rules dictated by others.
Microsoft does not intend to change its business strategy, mind, and having to use different profiles license is instrumental in achieving specific goals, just as the case and released on three drivers. This point was repeatedly stressed by Pier Paolo Boccadamo Director of Platform Strategy Microsoft Italy - we all'OSCON reached by telephone. With this announcement, Microsoft shows that it has taken an important evolutionary process: only a few years ago its position against Linux was strict and well defined. Now there is a sign of openness, a major project initiated and, more importantly, a series of commitments to be pursued. All this will certainly be widely been considered and will serve the business to Microsoft, in fact - as stated by Pier Paolo Boccadamo - the new drivers included in the official linux kernel damage most value to Microsoft Windows Server 2008.
The initiative announced at OSCON 2009 was also another aspect: Microsoft demonstrates attentive to changes imposed by the market and intends to follow for maximum benefit. Microsoft could implement a policy quite different, thus ignoring the existence of Linux and ignoring the possibility that there may be on the market hybrid infrastructure. This approach, which we have seen in the past though with different nuances, however, would removing opportunities for Microsoft partners, that is, who is in direct contact with the hybrid infrastructure problems and must find an optimal solution for management. Just in this sense, the inclusion of the three driver in linux kernel increases the value of Windows Server 2008 and "gives" technology.
But there are other areas where Microsoft has long links with the open source world. Pier Paolo Boccadamo cites, for example working with the PHP project, contacts with the development community of Wordpress and Apache. OSCON 2009 is still ongoing, and Microsoft, while not revealing the contents, promises more news before the close of business. Waiting to know more details we point out this study by Sam Ramji, Senior Director Strategy Plaform Microsoft.
Source: Digital Spy
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