New shocking news from The Register, Microsoft is giving a nice surprise to the open source community. Sam Ranji, the director of Microsoft in platform strategy saying that Microsoft is changing their status from being the participant of the open source contributor. They are also doing three things that are ought to be praise.
There are three praised ought to things done by Microsoft that makes them a nice big software company release a nice yet shocking news to the open source community. Microsoft is going to donate their amount of money up to $100,000 to Apache Software Foundation to makes them having a platinum member status. This platinum member status is in the same level of previous major search engine of Google and Yahoo!. Microsoft also going to contributing patches PHP that can add the support for PHP SQL Driver.
Their praised ought to activities are not done yet. Microsoft is also makes their words of their Open Specifications promise that will open more than 100 communication protocols of Windows Server and client. World wide know that Bill Gates as the founding father of Microsoft is already left Microsoft. It makes several analyst predicted that Microsoft will keep their commitment to the open source community after left by Bill Gates. This new grow development is keep beyond believes of anybody. This beyond expectation is based because Microsoft is company that is trying to compete the level upper than Apache’s market share in the web server segment. But what Microsoft did is not just an altruistic action in 100 percent. Knowing the PHP compatibility in Microsoft, it can avoid the development on application PHP operation in Linux. It is also makes Apache having advantages over Microsoft if lots of people will be use Apache in Windows.
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