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From the News Desk
Friday, 20. June 2008
Microsoft Becomes a Part of Open Source Initiative
Microsoft has recently signed a deal with Open Source Census, a project aiming to tally usage data on open source software in business and use that tally as a way to promote more corporate use of open source software, to sponsor the initiative.
"Our customers, partners and developers are working in increasingly heterogeneous environments, and our participation in industry projects like The Open Source Census are relevant for the ecosystem in which we participate," said Sam Ramji, Microsoft' senior director of platform strategy, in a prepared statement.
The Microsoft name stands out as a new sponsor mainly because the company has been involved with open source for only a few years, and hasn't always been friendly to it. Microsoft, last year claimed that open-source software violated more than 200 of its patents. Joining the group at the "Friends" level are "ActiveState, EnterpriseDB and OSAlt.com." A new sponsor, in addition to Microsoft, is the Oregon State University Open Source Lab.
The Open Source Census was started in April by open source management company OpenLogic and relies on anonymous scans of computers to count open source installations with software called OSS Discovery. So far, 228,117 open source installations have been found from all company sizes and industries, with the Firefox Web browser at the top of the list of most popular open source software.
Related Links
https://www.osscensus.org/index.php
"Our customers, partners and developers are working in increasingly heterogeneous environments, and our participation in industry projects like The Open Source Census are relevant for the ecosystem in which we participate," said Sam Ramji, Microsoft' senior director of platform strategy, in a prepared statement.
The Microsoft name stands out as a new sponsor mainly because the company has been involved with open source for only a few years, and hasn't always been friendly to it. Microsoft, last year claimed that open-source software violated more than 200 of its patents. Joining the group at the "Friends" level are "ActiveState, EnterpriseDB and OSAlt.com." A new sponsor, in addition to Microsoft, is the Oregon State University Open Source Lab.
The Open Source Census was started in April by open source management company OpenLogic and relies on anonymous scans of computers to count open source installations with software called OSS Discovery. So far, 228,117 open source installations have been found from all company sizes and industries, with the Firefox Web browser at the top of the list of most popular open source software.
Related Links
https://www.osscensus.org/index.php
