Participating in a World of Choice: practical aspects about Open Source and Microsoft

Todi PruteanuPlatform Strategy Managertodi.pruteanu@microsoft.com

Zoli HerczegNational Technology Officer

zoli.herczeg@microsoft.com

Agenda

• Participating in a world of choice

• Technical Collaboration

• Open Source Heroes

• Next

TECHNICAL COLLABORATION

{Silver, Moon}light

• Enhanced cross-platform Silverlight capabilities with Moonlight

• It works for Agora Media– 2 ITTRENDS Roundtables and 4 Agora Technology Conferences

powered (live and on-demand) by Silverlight and Moonlight

PHP on Windows

• PHP Classes Blog on May 12, 2009:– 5,000,000 PHP developers in the world

that developed 20,000,000 Web sites– 2.13% from Romania– 83.87% on Windows

• Hm…

• Expression Web 2.0– Broadens tool focus to support PHP site

editing, built-in Web server

• ADOdb– First LGPL/BSD Open Source project

that Microsoft has contributed to

• SQL Server PHP Driver– Designed to enable PHP

applications to be developed and deployed on SQL Server

• IIS7+ FastCGI– Improvement the performance

of PHP on Windows

• PHPAzure (PHP SDK for Windows Azure)

– Ppen source project to provide software development kit for Windows Azure and Windows Azure Storage – Blobs, Tables & Queues

• …

Web, virtualization

OPEN SOURCE HEROES

Today's heroes don't need superhuman strength, or x-ray vision – they need communities, code and choices to develop and deploy amazing software. These {Open Source} Heroes are doing amazing work with open source software and Microsoft technology. Do what you love, do it well.

{Răzvan Hobeanu} www.kenubi.com

Title: Software Consultant

Place of work: Kenubi

Location: Bucharest, România

Inspiration: Rajeev Nagar, the Sysinternals guys

Tools of the trade: Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset,

TortoiseSVN

“When I first started

studying Windows

internals, the lack of

documentation made it

seem as an impossible

subject to research.

Thanks to some people

who released their code

as open source, I finally

understood the meaning

of «sharing is caring»”

“It’s aberrant to keep the knowledge for ourselves.

After I understood that I founded our community:

PHP-Fusion Romania. Others understood that

and we are team mates today. Microsoft

understands that and it supports our project

according to our needs. We want to develop

(ourselves). I’m passionate with what I do and I’m

glad stubbornness can endorse this kind of

projects and gather people that share even more

knowledge”

{Nicolae Crefelean}

Title: Founder

Place of work: PHP-Fusion Romania

Location: Bucharest, Romania

Inspiration: My parents, sister, friends, people

Tools of the trade: PHP, MySQL, Windows, other

Open Source software + an apparently infinite

amount of patience

www.phpfusion.ro

{Adi Andreiaș} www.elvsoft.com

Title: Owner

Place of work: Elvsoft

Location: Cluj-Napoca, România

Inspiration: Guido van Rossum

Tools of the trade: Python, Django, jQuery, Eclipse,

PostgreSQL, MySQL, Windows, Visual Studio, C#

“Interoperability allows

us to get the best of both

worlds. We're writing

Python code on

Windows Vista and using

Microsoft tools and code

gets deployed on Linux

and Windows servers.

The power of choice

means that businesses

can be more flexible”

{Gabriel Enea} www.joobsbox.com

“Working for our customers is nice, working for our projects is great, but working on an open source project is exciting because it is a good way to express not only to the end users but also to developers, people like you - developers. It's like working with a big team, sharing experience, ideas and good solutions”

Title: Owner Joobs.ro

Place of work: Iasi, Romania

Inspiration: Life’s nature

Tools of the trade: C#, ASP.NET MVC,

ADO.NET Entity Framework, Visual Studio

2008

“I always considered that, like imagination, software should not be limited.

Source availability and community contribuition takes software at a whole new

level. At AnswerJoy.com we use tools that enable high flexibility and through it

we get to deliver the best solution for our users.”

{Mihai Nadăș}

Title: Co-Founder

Place of work: AnswerJoy.com

Location: Cluj-Napoca, România

Inspiration: Imagine Cup

Tools of the trade: a power team, JavaScript, Erlang,

PHP, Thrift, .NET Framework, LINQ2SQL, SQL Server,

Windows

www.AnswerJoy.com (coming soon)

“We believe in the future of Open Source as a business model as well as

we’re convinced all shops and related services will move to the Web. This

is why we developed Live2c.net, an Open Source platform for e-

commerce, delivered as a service (SaaS). The first one of its kind using

Microsoft technology”

Title: CoFounder

Place of work: live2C.net

Location: Bucharest, România

Inspiration: Morten Lund - Chief Ideologist

Tools of the trade: a Power Team .NET Framework,

LINQ2SQL, SQL Server

{Alexandru Cîrcei} www.live2c.net

Next steps

• Participate: watch us closely on microsoft.com/opensource

• Partner: BizSpark

• Grow: build open source business with Microsoft

• Learn: Windows Academic Program(CRK/WRK/ProjectOz), Rotor (SSCLI), Common Compiler Infrastructure (CCI)