Microsoft Preps Open-Source Apps Marketplace
Microsoft is in the process of building out a marketplace for open-source applications that could work like an equivalent to an app store for applications, services and support for open-source technology that runs on the Windows platform.
At the Microsoft MIX09 conference here, Lauren Cooney, group product manager for Web Platform and Standards at Microsoft, said there is a new movement at Microsoft under way and she is part of the new blood leading the way toward that brave new world, particularly on the Web. Cooney, who came to Microsoft after stints at both IBM and BEA Systems, where she worked with Java and open-source Web and emerging technologies, said a key slogan with her group is, “Make Web not war.”
Microsoft Preps Open-Source Apps Marketplace
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