20080602 microsoft and open source
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Presentation delivered at UCLA Anderson School of Management's IS Associates event "Is Open Source Ready for Primetime?"TRANSCRIPT
Public Perceptions
Public Perceptions
Microsoft’s Perspective on Open Source
“We at Microsoft respect and appreciate the important role that open source software plays in our industry. We respect and we appreciate the passion and the great contribution that open source developers make in our industry… That is not what you have always heard from us, and I recognize that….”
Brad Smith, SVP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Microsoft CorporationOSBC (Open Source Business Conference), San Francisco, 3/25/08
Microsoft’s Perspective on Open Source
Open Source:• not a fad• not a “magic bullet” either• part of a spectrum of choices for:
– development methods– licensing terms– business models
Most likely, software users will continue to see a comingling of free, open source, and proprietary software products for as far as the eye can see.
Foreword, Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software, MIT Press 2005
Microsoft:• supports open source
models and ecosystems• competes with open source
software products, just as with any competing product or business
Microsoft’s Perspective on Open Source
By participating in a broad ecosystem that includes open source and commercial/proprietary software, Microsoft promotes the “world of choice” that will best develop and sustain customer and partner opportunity.
Microsoft’s Open Source Engagements
partnerships communities technology research
partnerships communities technology research
Microsoft’s Open Source Engagements
5,000,000 developers
75,000 partners
18,000,000 visits to Port25 75% Firefox 20% Linux/Unix
4,500,000 Channel9 visitors
5,000 Microsoft bloggers
40,000 Codeplex users
hypervisor collaboration
PHP optimization
MySQLConnector to Visual Studio
Linux / Windows interoperability
System Center X-Plat
OpenPegasus
3,800+ CodePlex projects
170,000+ Sourceforge projects 77K Windows 17K Windows-only 5K+ .NET
1,000,000 LoC on MSDN & TechNet
588 Shared Source licenseprojects
AIDS vaccine research tools
usability / HCI research
multi-year funded academic projects
partnerships communities technology research
Microsoft’s Open Source Engagements
5,000,000 developers
75,000 partners
18,000,000 visits to Port25 75% Firefox 20% Linux/Unix
4,500,000 Channel9 visitors
5,000 Microsoft bloggers
40,000 Codeplex users
hypervisor collaboration
PHP optimization
MySQLConnector to Visual Studio
Linux / Windows interoperability
System Center X-Plat
OpenPegasus
3,800+ CodePlex projects
170,000+ Sourceforge projects 77K Windows 17K Windows-only 5K+ .NET
1,000,000 LoC on MSDN & TechNet
588 Shared Source licenseprojects
AIDS vaccine research tools
usability / HCI research
multi-year funded academic projects
policy participation transparency innovation
Microsoft’s Open Source Commitments
Open Source Interoperability Initiative
Open Source ISV Forum
Interoperability Forum
Interoperability Vendor Alliance
Windows Academic Program
Microsoft Partner Program
microsoft.com /opensource
Patent Pledge for Open Source developers
Interoperability Principles
Open Specification Promise
Port25
CodePlex
SourceForge
open protocol specifications
standards support
data portability
Shared Source programs
Open Source Software Lab
Technology Visual Studio Express Visual Web Developer Express SQL Server Express, Compact Windows Server SE (DreamSpark) Office Live, Live Workspaces Popfly XNA Game Studio Robotics Studio (non-commercial) .NET Framework SharePoint Learning Kit ASP.NET AJAX IronPython, IronRuby ODF/OXML Translators Windows Installer XML Toolset
Research PhotoSynth Haskell Programming Language Health Design Tools Machine Learning & Appl. Stat. Windows Research Kernel (WRK)
Microsoft today is an active Microsoft today is an active participant in the Open participant in the Open
Source communitySource community
Our question today…“Is Open Sourceready for primetime?”
Our question today…
It depends.
“Is Open Sourceready for primetime?”
Not all software is equalNot all software is equal
Software Categories
From Wikipedia’s Free Software Portalhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Free_software/categories
Top Open Source Projects
Not all “Open Source” Not all “Open Source” means equalmeans equal
audience philosophy model
Open Source…
free!?OSS – Open Source Software
FOSS – Free/Open Source Software
FLOSS – Free/Libre/Open Source Software
available source
freeware / shareware
etc.
end user
business executive
architect
manager
developer
system administrator
etc.
development approach
licensing
marketing
monetization
support services
etc.
Not all “primetime” Not all “primetime” means equalmeans equal
OpenOpenSource Source
SoftwareSoftware
ThirdThirdPartyParty
SoftwareSoftware==
zero cost
good enough
lower complexity
security
more open
cross-platform
no vendor lock-in
community-driven development
Unclear trade-offsUnclear trade-offs
lower ongoing cost
more complete features
backwards compatibility
more secure
open standards
interoperability
commitment on support
managed development
open source software vendors
proprietary software vendors
total costtotal costfeature setfeature setsecuritysecurityopen standardsopen standardsinteroperabilityinteroperabilitymanageabilitymanageabilityreliabilityreliabilityscalabilityscalabilityetc.etc.
Rational, analytical decisionRational, analytical decision
initial costsacquisition and
deployment
ongoing costsmaintenance
and end user costs
benefitsbenefits to the
organization
It’s about It’s about VALUEVALUE
developmentmodel
licensingmodel
businessmodel
Open Source Microsoft Office?
free for end-users?
alternative revenue models such as services contracts, advertising, hardware OEM cost-shifting, fee-by-feature, etc.?
how to ensure strategic direction alignment across a complex set of software projects and components?
community-driven distributed collaboration vs. centrally coordinated and orchestrated development and maintenance
how to maintain a centralized and specialized team of developers?
e.g., ~2000 developers contributed to a year’s worth of Linux kernel releases (2.6.16 to 2.6.20), and the majority of developers are paid for this work (+60%)
similarly (% paid), Eclipse: 86.9% MySql: 92.8%
Open Source Microsoft Office?
Free!
Free!
Free!
OnlineOnline
EnterpriseEnterpriseDevicesDevices
DesktopDesktop
OpenOpenSource Source
SoftwareSoftware
Proprietary Proprietary CommercialCommercial
SoftwareSoftware
A World of ChoiceA World of Choice
© 2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.
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