Does Microsoft Have an Open Source Heart?
Company says its open source outreach effort is coming alive By Kurt Mackie08/01/2008 Microsoft’s open source outreach effort, which started just a few years ago, isn’t dead on arrival, if you hear Sam Ramji, Microsoft’s senior director of platform strategy, talk about it. Rather, it’s coming alive. For instance, Ramji told the largely software developer crowd at OSCON last week that Microsoft was joining the Apache Software Foundation, a nonprofit group that focuses on open source Web server projects. Even before that event, which was held in Portland, Ore., Ramji expressed optimism for Microsoft’s nascent open source initiatives. “A beating heart is the core of what we are going to be doing in the next several years with open source and Linux,” Ramji said in an interview with Barton George prior to the event. Ramji is part of the Microsoft Linux/Open Source Software Lab and works with a corporate strategy and execution team. He added that Microsoft has increased the number of its emp
