“Whether Apache (or its userbase) cares about GNU/Linux is a separate question...”Microsoft really wants to be part of this success and if IIS cannot beat Apache, then Microsoft is determined to ensure that GNU/Linux can at least be replaced by Microsoft Windows Server on servers running Apache. Whether Apache (or its userbase) cares about GNU/Linux is a separate question, but as we strongly stressed yesterday, it should care. Microsoft's vigorous insistence that its software should receive precedence on its own platform goes a long way back. Consider Java, for example. Remember Netscape too.
Apache seems to be setting itself for more Microsoft influence. We wrote about this before [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17] and now arrives another early sign.
Apache's annual conference was announced yesterday and a lot of it harps about Microsoft, which is still losing to Apache. Microsoft, which became one of the sponsors, is mentioned 8 times in the press release, including the headline. It will also keynote the event. Have a look at the press release.
ApacheCon US 2008 Keynotes to Focus on Central Issues of Open Source Standards, Microsoft, and Technology's Role in Rebuilding Communities
Open Source notables from Microsoft and the Open Web Foundation highlight ApacheCon US 2008 conference in New Orleans
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2008 keynote speakers include Sam Ramji, Senior Director of Platform Strategy Microsoft's Open Source division...
Comments
HarryTuttle
2008-10-31 09:24:11
MS can't really win, because they cannot "magically" remove the source-code overnight and all causalties they try to fight return eventually under a new free license (StarOffice, Netscape) to attack them even stronger.
Patents and incompatibility (deviding the landscape) are the only hopes left for MS to survive its old pattern.