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Microsoft’s Interoperability Bridges & Lab Center

Doug Finke — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:20:12 +0000

When Microsoft introduced Azure, they not only provided a .NET SDK, they also have provided a Java, PHP and Ruby SDK. Plus Eclipse editor tools.

Jean Paoli, co-creator of Xml, presented the story on Microsoft’s interoperability effort. Covering 4 key tenants: Products, Collaboration, Developer Resources and Standards Bodies.

For Microsoft’s big main products they

Have documented protocols, more than 80K pages
Work with more than 150 standards organizations
Sit down every six months for two days and talk with IBM, Red Hat, Apache etc. Having frank open non-marketing conversations about interoperability

Check out their page Interoperability Bridges & Lab Center.

Microsoft says they see big opportunities in the operability space. Perhaps another chance to embrace and extend.

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Doug Finke — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:59:25 +0000

Here

Erich Gamma – How (7 years of) Eclipse Changed my Views on Software Development

Doug Finke — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:55:40 +0000

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Eclipse-Lessons-Erich-Gamma

Erich Gamma is a co-author of Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

The beginning of Microsoft’s collaborative work with the Eclipse Foundation

Doug Finke — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:31:19 +0000

Bruce Kyle posts details.