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C dominated 2008’s open-source project nursery

TheOpenAnalyst — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:35:00 +0000

C overwhelmingly proved the most popular programming language for thousands of new open-source projects in 2008, according to license tracker Black Duck Software.

The company, which monitors 180,000 projects on nearly 4,000 sites, said almost half – 47 per cent – of new projects last year used C. Black Duck said 17,000 new open-source projects were created in total. Next in popularity after C came Java, with 28 per cent.

C dominated 2008’s open-source project nursery | The Register

Microsoft Keeps Embracing Open Source, Digs PHP

TheOpenAnalyst — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:40:00 +0000

Microsoft, the commercial software behemoth from Redmond, Washington, continues to dip its toes into the open source pool. Microsoft’s Open Source Technology Center (OSTC) is home to the software vendor’s relationships with a few open source products such as MySQL and SugarCRM. The OSTC has been hard at work lately — especially, in the web application space.

After releasing their own open source CMS and making it easy to install open source applications on Windows Server, what else has Redmond been up to?

Microsoft Keeps Embracing Open Source, Digs PHP | CMSWire

Microsoft reverses course, becomes more open to open-source community

TheOpenAnalyst — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:28:00 +0000

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