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By: Floogy

Floogy — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:27:04 +0000

Is the Microsoft Web Platform Installer open source?

No?

Oh. Well, that says something. Give a man a key to lock himself up with and he thanks you for the freebie.

By: Intersog

Intersog — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:30:09 +0000

Microsoft Puts Weight Behind Open Source Projects……

I found your entry interesting do I’ve added a Trackback to it on my weblog …

By: TheShadow

TheShadow — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 07:26:21 +0000

That’s pretty nice step from Microsoft ! For sure ppl will like the idea if they really mean it as how it is !

By: Fake Steve Jobs II

Fake Steve Jobs II — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:42:26 +0000

Is that EH the crypto guy? Anyways, just so that you know, when I kick it next year Bill Gates will take over at Apple. P.S. No installer needed.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:51:48 +0000

microsoft!! open source! doesn’t sound right

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By: gridview

gridview — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 02:53:36 +0000

good~~

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links for 2008-10-17 | hxf148 — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:06:43 +0000

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By: Srđan Prodanović

Srđan Prodanović — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:40:02 +0000

Pointless.. Enforcing such a licensing restriction would prove detrimental to the Microsoft brand, while the fact that it’s in there will repel any serious business from deploying it. In effect they will only partly reinforce their relationship with the current user base, but insignificantly expand to new markets.
If this was aimed at getting people who build on the applications involved (.net Nuke, Drupal) to most importantly deploy, but also develop on the Microsoft platform, it’s an epic fail. I use some of the open source systems involved, so it should interest me, but this release’s entry risk and returns hardly interest me. I imagine there are some businesses, already locked-in, that will appreciate this gesture.. By a weak initiative, that most likely fades on the board’s checklist.
I wouldn’t exactly put Apple up as an example, a bulk of the entire industry obviously chooses the most optimal free and open source software vendor. This move could obviously only work for building Microsoft’s reputation, but Google just does so much better in that respect.. Pointless.

By: arf

arf — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:24:05 +0000

ROFL

By: Michael Bach

Michael Bach — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:23:56 +0000

@Ajay – The Platform Installer and Application Installer makes use of features and extensions that are optimized for IIS7.0. We are targeting the latest version of our web server. We appreciate the feedback and I’ll let the product team know. FYI – XP support is something we are actively evaluating.

By: JMW

JMW — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:46:25 +0000

RI: It’s not the right direction if they do not leverage their own product (CKS:Sharepoint) beyond just a vanilla server platform. The analogy is a big mac with an add for LIPITOR on the wrapper. YOU grow up.

By: Vos Virtual Network » Open Source in the Enterprise - 2008

Vos Virtual Network » Open Source in the Enterprise - 2008 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:41:13 +0000

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By: techNmore.com

techNmore.com — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:49:43 +0000

If you want to survive you have to adapt to the trends of your industry. Open source should be apart of any large tech companies strategy like Google and IBM have done. Microsoft is trying to defend multiple fronts from the search advertising market (google/yahoo), to software (linux/openoffice), web browsers (firefox, chrome, safari) to media players (iphone). They have a huge task to continue to grow market share.

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Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:03:56 +0000

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By: Novo

Novo — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:58:56 +0000

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Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:29:46 +0000

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By: Quakeboy

Quakeboy — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:24:54 +0000

Finally someone lent some amount of it to someone in Microsoft.

Err…. I meant common sense !

By: andy!

andy! — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:50:30 +0000

Zope 3 Application Server would be a good idea.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:30:49 +0000

fianlly microsoft doing some right for open source community.
but why this installer is not available for windows xp ?

By: Michael Bach

Michael Bach — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:23:20 +0000

As of the beta it does not, however we constantly evaluating Joomla as well as other popular applications.

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Microsoft relases Web Application Installer | lab209 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:13:07 +0000

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By: Kyle Else

Kyle Else — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:49:44 +0000

Microsoft is a Event Sponsor for Drupal Camp Chicago. DCC will have a BoF session to discuss Drupal on Windows. What works, what doesn’t, what’s good, what sucks. This is a shot at a discussion with a Program manager from the IIS team (Windows web server) who is interested in making Open Source and PHP apps play better with Windows.