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Microsoft believes in providing a broad range of choices for developing and deploying open source software.

With Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, those choices just got better. Get started today with tools and programs to help you be a hero.

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	IronRuby RubyForge is a home for open source Ruby projects Getting Started with IronRuby Scott Guthrie Blog, GM within the Microsoft Developer Division John Lam on IronRuby
	IronPython Jim Huginin creator of Jython and the brains behind IronPython IronPython on CodePlex IronPython download Blogs, Video, and Demos on MSDN IronPython download for .Net IronPython Introduction IronPython samples using Visual Studio IronPython and the Dynamic Language Runtime, introduction to payoff
	PHP PHP on Windows Server 2008 Introduction to SQL Server Driver for PHP (SQLPHP) Zend & Microsoft Technical Partnership: Enhancing PHP on Windows Microsoft Expands Interoperability for the Identity Metasystem Drew's IIS blog: Making PHP Great on IIS
	VS Core Tour of Visual Studio Core Visual Studio Core, Accessibility More on VS Core – A Walkthru
	IIS Retooled (PHP Optimized) Bill Hilf’s Blog: PHP on IIS MS FastCGI Extension for IIS 5.1/6.0 (FastCGI Extension) as a free download PHP and SQL Server IIS Community Forums
	Reference Source Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries
	Codeplex CodePlex is Microsoft's open source project hosting web site What is Codeplex? Codeplex and collaborative software development with Korby Panell Shared Source, CodePlex and Powertoys Cross-Platform Access to Codeplex Compliments of Teamprise Building a community, connecting developers
	Develop with Express Products Visual Studio Express Lead Programmer discusses VS Express SQL Server Express

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	Express Products Visual Studio Express Lead Programmer discusses VS Express SQL Server Express
	OSI-Approved Licenses Open Source Licenses Microsoft Out in the Open From the OSI, Two Microsoft Licenses Approved C\|Net: OSI Gives two Microsoft licenses its blessing
	Powershell Bill's overview Powershell on Codeplex Server Management Introduction on IIS
	Codeplex CodePlex is Microsoft's open source project hosting web site What is Codeplex? Codeplex and collaborative software development with Korby Panell Shared Source, CodePlex and Powertoys Cross-Platform Access to Codeplex Compliments of Teamprise Building a community, connecting developers
	Active Directory & Federation Active Directory of Federation Services, Technet
	XML-Based Event/System Management Kishi on Systems Management Windows Server 2008 Identity and Access
	Virtualization Virtualization on Windows Server 2008 Bill Hilf’s Blog on Virtualization What is Hyper-V Windows Virtualization Team Blog
	Server Core Bill's Blog: Server Core announcement Serve Core installation

*Getting Started on the Microsoft Platform* Get started today by learning about the programming languages, standards, and tools that enable developers to take advantage of the Windows platform. *MSDN Community Center* Search and participate in a growing community of developer forums, blogs, and newsgroups. *Shared Source Initiative* Microsoft is sharing source code with customers, partners, developers, academics, and governments worldwide.
	Novell Partnership One Year: Novell and Microsoft About the Microsoft & Novell Interoperability Collaboration Bill Hilf’s Blog on Novell Partnership
	MySQL Partnership Bills IIS Blog, Running WordPress on Windows '08 Server Core with IIS7 + PHP + MySQL MySQL Database Server and Microsoft Windows Connecting Office Applications to MySQL
	XenSource Partnership Announcement End to End Virtualization XenSource Community
	SugarCRM Partnership MS Announcement SugarCRM-Microsoft Case Study
	IVA Interoperability Vendor Alliance
	2008 Launch Wave Learn more about Windows Server, Visual Studio and SQL Server 2008


	Get started with business and community partners to help you solve today's IT challenges. MindTouch MindTouch Deki Wiki is an open source Web-services platform for creating mashups with a wiki interface. Aras Aras provides enterprise open source SOA solutions, and is certified on Windows Server 2008. SpikeSource SpikeSource offers enterprise class solutions by integrating applications and middleware into a single package.

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Bill Hilf
General Manager,
Platform Value

Jason Matusow
Interoperability at Microsoft

Sam Ramji
Director, Open Source Software Lab

Bryan Kirschner
Director, Platform Community

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