Inside Port 25: Open Source at Microsoft

Port 25 is home to the open source community at Microsoft. Today, this represents an open conversation dedicated to Linux, Windows, and open source interoperability between Microsoft business and technical leaders and the industry. In partnership with O'Reilly, Inside Port 25 takes that dialogue into the community for an objective, outsider's perspective on open source research, insights, and industry trends.

Port 25 Featured Video

Allison Randal on Open Source

Video: Allison Randal on Open Source
Allison Randal discusses the importance of participation in the open source community and her perspective on where Microsoft sits relative to the principle that everyone deserves to participate.

For more video and podcast community interviews, go to our media page on Port25.com.

Contributing Bloggers

Planning to Migrate to MySQL 6.0 on Windows? Read About its New Backup and Start Testing Now

Friday August 29, 2008
MySQL 6 is still in its alpha release stage. However, I've found that it takes me a long time before I am comfortable in migrating production databases to a major new database server release. And, moving from 5.x to 6.0… read more
Todd Ogasawara

Cisco Buys PostPath!

Thursday August 28, 2008
Well now, this is very interesting. Cisco just bought PostPath. PostPath is an Exchange alternative and has been around for quite a bit. They don’t get as much press as Zimbra, but they are a contender. Cisco. Very interesting.
Dustin Puryear

Exchange vs. Open Source

Wednesday August 27, 2008
Steven Vaughan-Nichols just wrote an absolutely excellent article about whether open source can replace Exchange or not. It’s highly suggested. Anyway, the article touches on several products, including Scalix and Zimbra, which reminded me of my own blog about open… read more
Dustin Puryear

Important PHP 5.3 Changes for those of you Running Microsoft Windows

Wednesday August 27, 2008
PHP 5.3.0 is only in its first alpha release. But, if you run PHP in Microsoft Windows, you should talk a look at... Release Notes for Windows Binaries (for PHP 5.3.0) Here are the important changes: - Support for Windows… read more
Todd Ogasawara

Fedora Authentication Server Breached: Do People Run Production Servers Using Fedora???

Monday August 25, 2008
Most so-called Linux security issues turn out to be some insecurely coded PHP/Perl/Python/Ruby/fill_in_the_blank app that is simply another application and not a core part of Linux at all. So, I wasn't alarmed when I read this in Information Week. Red… read more
Todd Ogasawara

Has the Microsoft-Novell SUSE Certificates Affected Linux Virtualization Support?

Friday August 22, 2008
Microsoft paid Novell $240 million in 2006 in what they call subscription fees as part of an agreement for technology sharing and to not sue each others customers for alleged intellectual property (IP) infringements. The payment was not made in… read more
Todd Ogasawara

MySQL Drizzle Project

Wednesday August 20, 2008
I vaguely remember hearing/reading something about the MySQL Drizzle project among the news emerging from OSCON last month. But, it didn't grab my attention enough at the time (I thought it was just something compete with SQLite), so I didn't… read more
Todd Ogasawara

Blackbox for Windows!

Tuesday August 19, 2008
Wow, apparently Blackbox has been available for Windows for a while now, but I didn’t know it. If you aren’t familiar with Blackbox, it’s a Window Manager (WM) for X. You can compare an X Window Manager to the Windows… read more
Dustin Puryear

Microsoft HPC

Monday August 18, 2008
Microsoft is set to release Windows HPC Server 2008. According to people in the know, it’s supposed to be “a real milestone product for Microsoft”. Hmm, I’m curious. Read this blog on MSDN to learn more. An interesting paragraph: Windows… read more
Dustin Puryear

CodePlex vs. SourceForge Most Downloaded Apps

Monday August 18, 2008
I visit SourceForge.net and Microsoft's CodePlex.com once or twice a month to see what's new and the most downloaded projects lists. The different natures of the top 10 most downloaded projects on each site always struck me as interesting. Let's… read more
Todd Ogasawara