Open Source

Resources for IT Administrators

Microsoft provides extensive online technical documentation and newsgroups to help IT administrators learn and solve problems together. These resources are complemented by interactive blogs from individual Microsoft employees and source code access programs designed to meet a variety of customer needs.

Port 25: The Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft

Join the discussion of insights, technical analysis, and blogs that cover running open source software and Microsoft technology together.

Highlighted Content from Port 25:

Interoperability Vendor Alliance

Learn about the work Red Hat, Novell, Xensource, SugarCRM, and others undertaking community to enhance interoperability between disparate software platforms.

TechNet Community Forums

Get help from peers, product teams, and industry experts through newsgroups, blogs, online chats, and webcasts.

Microsoft BizTalk Community

Learn more about Microsoft BizTalk, a server application that enables companies to automate and optimize business processes. BizTalk Server 2006 includes 23 application and technology adapters in the box for connecting to legacy systems (mainframe and mid-range) and line-of-business applications (SAP, Siebel, PeopleSoft, Oracle, and JD Edwards).

Windows Server 2003 R2 UNIX Interoperability

Windows Server 2003 R2 ships with three UNIX interoperability components, namely, Microsoft Services for Network File System (NFS), Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications, and Identity Management for UNIX.

Open Specification Promise

The Open Specification Promise is a simple and clear promise from Microsoft to developers and customers to freely implement a number of covered technical specifications around web services, virtualization, security and office specifications.

Open source Open XML-ODF Translator

The Open XML-ODF Translator provides the tools to build a technical bridge between the Microsoft® Office Open XML Formats and the OpenDocument Format (ODF). Download the Translator.

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