I Don't Get it Why Microsoft did it
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After Reading this http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/08/07/25/Microsoft_gives_Apache_cash_to_promote_open_source_1.html[^] Can any one please explain to me what is Microsoft benefits from it, I don't get it
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After Reading this http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/08/07/25/Microsoft_gives_Apache_cash_to_promote_open_source_1.html[^] Can any one please explain to me what is Microsoft benefits from it, I don't get it
They get evidence that they're not an evil monopoly, since they're helping out the little guy (so good PR points)
Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
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After Reading this http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/08/07/25/Microsoft_gives_Apache_cash_to_promote_open_source_1.html[^] Can any one please explain to me what is Microsoft benefits from it, I don't get it
>>Through Microsoft's contribution, ADOdb can now communicate natively with SQL Server's database driver, the company said Opensource is getting more and more mainstream and MS wants the opensource projects to integrate with their products. So they can continue selling their own products even if a customer is using OS projects for some tasks.
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After Reading this http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/08/07/25/Microsoft_gives_Apache_cash_to_promote_open_source_1.html[^] Can any one please explain to me what is Microsoft benefits from it, I don't get it
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They get evidence that they're not an evil monopoly, since they're helping out the little guy (so good PR points)
Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
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>>Through Microsoft's contribution, ADOdb can now communicate natively with SQL Server's database driver, the company said Opensource is getting more and more mainstream and MS wants the opensource projects to integrate with their products. So they can continue selling their own products even if a customer is using OS projects for some tasks.
Do you mean it is just a way to get OS users to use Microsoft products
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Apache is good for wiki's, but it doesn't integrate very well with Microsoft Exchange. They need some sort of competition, and it's better to have a marginal competitor that you know, than to open up a space for an aggressive (commercial) newcomer.
Apache is a web server and doesn't have much to do with Wiki's or Microsoft Exchange (that's left to the software you run under it). Seeing as Apache currently has a larger share of the server market than Microsoft I don't think it has anything to do with wanting a marginal competitor. As someone else mentioned, Microsoft is trying to catch non-ASP developers who don't currently view Windows as a viable platform. If they work with different vendors to get their software fully operational on Windows (Apache for the server, Zend for PHP etc) then they've removed several reasons why someone would pick a Linux based system.
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Apache is a web server and doesn't have much to do with Wiki's or Microsoft Exchange (that's left to the software you run under it). Seeing as Apache currently has a larger share of the server market than Microsoft I don't think it has anything to do with wanting a marginal competitor. As someone else mentioned, Microsoft is trying to catch non-ASP developers who don't currently view Windows as a viable platform. If they work with different vendors to get their software fully operational on Windows (Apache for the server, Zend for PHP etc) then they've removed several reasons why someone would pick a Linux based system.
no, Apache HTTPD is a web server. but "Apache" only is an open source foundation, which produces many more products.
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no, Apache HTTPD is a web server. but "Apache" only is an open source foundation, which produces many more products.
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Apache is a web server and doesn't have much to do with Wiki's or Microsoft Exchange (that's left to the software you run under it). Seeing as Apache currently has a larger share of the server market than Microsoft I don't think it has anything to do with wanting a marginal competitor. As someone else mentioned, Microsoft is trying to catch non-ASP developers who don't currently view Windows as a viable platform. If they work with different vendors to get their software fully operational on Windows (Apache for the server, Zend for PHP etc) then they've removed several reasons why someone would pick a Linux based system.
Johnny ² wrote:
Apache is a web server and doesn't have much to do with Wiki's or Microsoft Exchange (that's left to the software you run under it).
It doesn't have much to do with Microsoft Exchange indeed. Interfacing is easy from .NET, but that takes more than a simple webserver. Apache is missing out a lot on infrastructure-integration :) It's usually embedded in a LAMP-setup, destined to host wiki's, forums and blogs. Or am I mistaken by now? Wouldn't be the first time, and won't be the last time :laugh:
Johnny ² wrote:
Seeing as Apache currently has a larger share of the server market than Microsoft I don't think it has anything to do with wanting a marginal competitor.
Largest part of the webserver "market" is hosting for wiki's, blogs and forums.. One tends to pick the cheapest thing that works, IIS would be kinda overkill there. A marginal competitor should be kept alive. It's far better than real competition!
Johnny ² wrote:
As someone else mentioned, Microsoft is trying to catch non-ASP developers who don't currently view Windows as a viable platform.
Apache has been available for Windows' for some time now, so this would be somewhat redundant. Somehow, I don't feel like they are interested in catching some PHP-scripters..