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| DATE | 2016-06-30 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout-NYLXS] we love you yeah yeah yeah
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http://www.wired.com/2016/06/microsofts-open-source-love-affair-reaches-new-heights/
Microsoft Says It’s in Love With Linux. Now It’s Finally Proving It
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It’s official: Microsoft code isn’t just for Windows anymore.
Today, the company released .NET Core 1.0, a version of its popular
software development platform that will run not just on its own Windows
operating systems, but on the Linux and Mac OS X operating systems as
well. What’s more, .NET Core is open source, meaning that any developer
can not only use it for free to build their own applications, but also
modify and improve the platform to suit their needs and the needs of others.
Microsoft first released .NET Core and its source code back in 2014, but
previous versions of the software were only intended for testing
purposes. Today marks the first time that Microsoft has officially
supported using the platform for real-world applications on Linux and OS
X, the two primary competitors to Windows. Red Hat, one of the world’s
primary Linux vendors, also announced that it will officially support
.NET on its popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system.
All this highlights an enormous change not only in Microsoft, but in the
software industry as a whole. Over the last decade, the world’s tech
businesses, from Google and Facebook and Twitter on down, have
increasingly used Linux and other open source software to build their
online services and other technologies, and as a result, IT vendors—the
companies that help businesses build their online services—have moved
closer and closer to the open source way. This includes Microsoft, one
of the largest IT vendors. In order to compete, Microsoft must ensure
not only that .NET is open source, but that other important Microsoft IT
tools run on all operating systems, including, most notably, Linux
As Microsoft put the finishing touches on .NET, it also released a
preview version of its SQL Server database software that runs on Linux.
The database itself is not open source, and it’s not yet ready for the
real-world, but this is the first time Microsoft has offered the product
for Linux. Traditionally, Microsoft only supported running software on
its own operating systems, perhaps out of fear of cannibalizing the
sales of Windows licenses. But the world has changed, and Microsoft is
changing with it.
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