The talk addresses Microsoft activities in the field of OSS. Along with some insider info you'll get an insight at the real cases, projects and contributions to the OSS world. Attention will be paid to the historical and current advance of PHP, Javascript and Azure.
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OSS at Microsoft
1. OSS at Microsoft
‘’Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there.’’
Franklin P. Jones
Anatoliy Belsky
PHP Specialist
11/11/2012
2. About Me
Anatoliy Belsky
• Open Source Fan
• PHP Core Developer
• Working with Microsoft since March 2012
• ab@php.net
• weltling on #php.pecl and github
• @weltling
3. Windows OSS Ecosystem
400.000 active OSS projects
92% of commonly used OSS
Microsoft released and maintains more than
5.000 lines of GPL’d code in the Linux kernel
8. OSTC Strategy
• Contribute to OSS projects
• Enhance interoperability
• Use OSS development model
• Development KITs open sourcing
• Adapt OSS to reduce costs
9. Hyper-V
• Open source drivers
• GPL’d for Linux
• BSD licensed for freeBSD
• High performance
• OpenStack integration
11. PHP
• 2 of the top 5 contributors work with
Microsoft
• Thousands contributions to the major PHP
projects
• SqlServer driver is open source
• Wincache extension is on PECL
• Contributions to APC, xdebug, etc.
12. PHP since 5.3
• Moved to VC9 compiler
• Direct Win32 APIs usage
• Improved dependency management