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Microsoft has begun to realign its legal department, allowing it to work in collaboration with its engineers so that product teams can have more flexibility with open-source software. The company is evangelizing—internally—that more interoperability can be good for the bottom line. Microsoft’s Sam Ramji, senior director of platform strategy, discussed with SD Times his company’s [...]

It’s funny, but “open source” and “burgeoning” are not exactly words I would have expected to see in the same sentence with “Microsoft” even last year. But that’s exactly how writer David Worthington described Sam Ramji’s take on open source at Microsoft — burgeoning.
In an interview published Wednesday in SD Times, Ramji explains that Microsoft [...]

The adoption of open source software is being driven by increased involvement by big commercial tech firms such as Microsoft and IBM, a study has claimed.
Open source is no longer just project based and developer driven, but increasingly involves vendors and their software, the report by analyst firm Saugatuck Technology suggested.
Big commercial firms driving open [...]

The success of open source software is now being driven by its rapid commercialization and not simply its appeal to evangelistic developers, a new report has suggested.
The authors of Power, Speed and Assimilation: Open Source Changes the Industry, and the Industry Changes Open Source, a mini report from Saugatuck Technology, go as far as to [...]

Put three geeks in a room and it won’t take long to start an argument. Well, analyst Dennis Byron, veteran open source exec Stuart Cohen, and ex-Microsoft developer Keith Curtis weren’t exactly in the same room, but all three have provocative opinions about the future of software in general and of open source in particular.
Byron, [...]