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Microsoft at Node Summit

We are excited to be attending and participating at Node Summit in San Francisco this week. Among those Microsoft staffers on site are Server & Tools Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie - who participated on a panel about Platform as a Service this morning and also gave a keynote address - and Gianugo Rabellino , the Senior Director for Open Source Communities, who was on a panel discussing the importance of cross-platform. You can read more about Scott's keynote on the Windows Azure blog...( read more ) Read More...

Open Source OData Library for Objective-C Project Moves to Outercurve Foundation

As Microsoft continues to deliver on its commitment to Interoperability, I have good news on the Open Source Software front: today, the OData Library for Objective-C project was submitted to the Outercurve Foundation’s Data, Languages, and Systems Interoperability gallery. This means that OData4ObjC , the OData client for iOS, is now a full, community-supported Open Source project. The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a web protocol for communications between client devices and RESTful web services...( read more ) Read More...

Full Support for PhoneGap on Windows Phone is Now Complete!

Congratulations to all the people involved in the PhoneGap community for the recent release of version 1.3 of their HTML5 open source mobile framework! This release includes many new features, and you can find more details here . You may remember that we announced back in Sept that Microsoft was helping to bring Windows Phone support in PhoneGap: I am happy to say we can now check this box! We’re also pleased to note that all features in PhoneGap 1.3 are now supported for Windows Phone, as...( read more ) Read More...

Openness Update for Windows Azure

As Microsoft’s Senior Director of Open Source Communities , I couldn’t be happier to share with you today an update on a wide range of Open Source developments on Windows Azure. As we continue to provide incremental improvements to Windows Azure , we remain committed to working with developer communities . We’ve spent a lot of time listening, and we have heard you loud and clear. We understand that there are many different technologies that developers may want to use to build applications...( read more ) Read More...

Preview Release of the SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux Hits the Streets

Microsoft's SQL Server team yesterday announced the availability of a preview release of the SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux, which allows native developers to access Microsoft SQL Server from Linux operating systems. For customers with native applications on multi-platform, the existing, reliable and enterprise-class ODBC for Windows driver (a.k.a. SQL Server Native Client, or SNAC) has been ported to the Linux platform. You can download the driver here . "In this release, the SQL Server ODBC Driver...( read more ) Read More...

Microsoft, Hadoop and Big Data

In a couple of weeks it will be my one year anniversary here at Microsoft and I couldn’t wish for a better anniversary gift: now that Microsoft has laid out its roadmap for Big Data , I’m really excited about the role that Apache Hadoop TM plays in this. In case you missed it, Microsoft Corporate Vice President Ted Kummert earlier today announced that we are adopting Hadoop by announcing plans to deliver enterprise class Apache Hadoop based distributions on both Windows Server and Windows...( read more ) Read More...

Open Source Community Participation at Think Tank Paris and Open World Forum

I recently returned from Paris, where I attended both the annual Open Source Think Tank and Open World Forum events. It was really great getting to chat with some of the folks representing the myriad of businesses that have sprung up around Open Source solutions, and having some in-depth discussions about broad industry trends. The Open Source Think Tank is pretty much a unique event in that it gives attendees the opportunity to examine open source and cloud evolution through detailed analysis and...( read more ) Read More...

OpenNebula Clouds on Windows Server Hyper-V

More good news on Microsoft's commitment to Interoperability in the cloud: last week Sandy Gupta, the General Manager for Microsoft's Open Solutions Group, announced that Windows Server Hyper-V is now an officially supported hypervisor for OpenNebula. This open source project is working on a prototype for release next month and it will soon be possible for customers to build and manage OpenNebula clouds on a Hyper-V based virtualization platform. "Windows Server Hyper-V is an enterprise class virtualization...( read more ) Read More...

Community Participation

I'm heading off to Paris this weekend to participate in the annual Open Source Think Tank and Open World Forum events held in that wonderful city next week. I'm really looking forward to chatting with all those folk interested in this space, from enthusiasts to developers and end users. I will be joined at these events by my colleague and Technical Ambassador Craig Kitterman , as well as by Alfonso Castro, our local market interoperability program lead. We will present technical sessions and participate...( read more ) Read More...

Installing and Running node.js applications within IIS on Windows - Are you mad?

Some folks on our team have been working on making node.js work awesomely on Windows . There's a few questions you might have. First, what's node.js? If you're not familiar with node.js, it's a new web programming toolkit that everyone's talking about. It's the one that makes you feel not hip if you don't know what it is. Like Ruby on Rails was a few years back. Folks called it "Node" and it's basically server-side JavaScript. The idea is that if you are doing a bunch of JavaScript on the...( read more ) Read More...