Microsoft reverses course, becomes more open to open-source community
When Microsoft Corp. bought Powerset Inc. in July, it acquired more than just search engine technology. It also became the owner of open-source code that was — and still is — being contributed to the Apache Software Foundation’s Hadoop project.
Having open-source technology in a product was a first for Microsoft, said Robert Duffner, a senior director in the company’s platform strategy group. Also in July, Microsoft began providing internally developed code to an open-source project called ADOdb, which produces a database abstraction library for the PHP and Python scripting languages.
Microsoft reverses course, becomes more open to open-source community | Computerworld
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