Monday, March 30, 2009

Microsoft and Open Source

Interesting title, right?
After years and years of battle with open source community, MS is now changing its strategy towards the open source world. Throught its "Microsoft Web App Gallery," MS is deploying a "one-stop" site for all kinds of open source assets for web developers. It's a good start for the software giant to penetrate into open source developers' land. Interesting items on the site, www.microsoft.com/web/gallery, are, for example
  • WordPress WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.
  • DotNetNuke® Community Edition DotNetNuke® is the ideal platform for building professional websites and web applications with dynamic content and interactive features.
  • ScrewTurn Wiki ASP.NET-based Wiki Software; allows to build a lightweight Intranet/Internet knowledge base, supporting article versioning and rollback, a basic authorization scheme and simplified file sharing. More information.
  • SilverStripe CMS Modern, user-friendly content management system. Extendable by web developers through PHP framework. More information.

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