Microsoft partners with open source-based businesses and communities to make it easier for customers to develop and deploy a mix of open source and Microsoft technologies.
| Aras Corporation is a Microsoft enterprise open source software solution provider for companies that want the control and flexibility of open source and have Microsoft skill sets and infrastructure. Learn more... |
| BitRock provides tools and services that make open source software easy to install, update, and manage on Windows, Linux, OS X, and other operating systems. BitRock and Microsoft have partnered to enable open source ISVs to provide a fast, user friendly installation experience for their software on Windows, SQL Server, and IIS. This allows ISVs to increase adoption of their software on Windows while reducing their support costs. Learn more... |
| Microsoft is a participant and sponsor of the 2007 Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON.) GOSCON provides public sector IT management and key technology staff with real world examples, practical information, and strategies for considering how open source software might fit into their software acquisition or development strategies. Learn more... |
| MindTouch Deki Wiki is an open source Web-services platform for creating mashups with a wiki interface. Deki Wiki's easy-to-use and sophisticated authoring, aggregating, organizing, and content sharing capabilities are commonly used by enterprises for building online communities. Deki Wiki is also a platform for creating collaborative applications, or adding wiki capabilities to existing applications. MindTouch is a leading community adopter of Microsoft .NET and Live Services throughout their innovative solutions. Learn more... |
| MySQL AB is a member of the Visual Studio Industry Program (VISP). As part of the VSIP program, MySQL has developed a downloadable plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 that allows Windows developers to quickly build MySQL data-driven applications with Visual Studio. With this plug-in, developers will be able to create, modify, and manage MySQL database objects with an easy-to-use interface from within the Visual Studio IDE. Learn more... |
| Under a broad set of business and technical collaboration agreements, Novell and Microsoft are jointly developing new solutions that will make Novell and Microsoft products work better together. Under our technical collaboration agreement, Novell and Microsoft are jointly developing solutions in four areas of technology: virtualization, standards-based systems management, directory and identity interoperability,
and document format compatibility. Learn more... |
| Over the past year, Microsoft has partnered with O'Reilly on a number of projects, including federating the Microsoft Port 25 community and the discussion of open source on Windows with the OnLAMP community. Microsoft has been a participant at OSCON since Craig Mundie spoke at the conference in 2001. Learn more... |
| SourceForge.net is the world's largest open source software development Web site, providing more than 160,000 projects and over 1,700,000 registered users with a centralized resource for managing projects, issues, communications, and code. With over 70,000 of those projects based on Microsoft technology, SourceForge.net and Microsoft have worked together to provide the tools, programs and resources to help developers be more successful. Learn more... |
| SpikeSource is a software company which distributes, integrates, manages, and supports open source solutions. Learn more... |
| SugarCRM and Microsoft are working together to help their mutual customers take further advantage of the increased reliability and simplified administration available on the Windows platform. SugarCRM is also releasing a new Sugar Suite distribution under the Microsoft Community License with the Sugar Suite 4.5 version. This license is part of the Microsoft Shared Source Initiative, a program through which Microsoft shares source code with customers, partners, and governments worldwide. Learn more... |
| Microsoft and XenSource have signed a collaborative agreement to develop interoperable virtualization solutions. The two companies are cooperating on the development of technology to provide interoperability between Xen-enabled Linux guest operating systems and the new Microsoft "hypervisor"-based Windows Server virtualization. Learn more... |
| XORP's goal is to develop an open source software router platform that is stable and fully featured enough for production use, and flexible and extensible enough to enable network research. Currently XORP implements routing protocols for IPv4 and IPv6 and a unified means to configure them. Learn more... |
| Zend and Microsoft are working together to enhance the experience of running the PHP scripting language on Windows Server 2003. The parties will extend the collaboration to Windows Server 2008. The resulting technology enhancements and ongoing interaction with the PHP community will enable customers to take advantage of the Windows Server platform. Learn more... |
