20080602 Microsoft and Open Source

Open Source and Microsoft Participating in a World of Choice David Chou [email_address]

Public Perceptions

Microsoft’s Perspective on Open Source

“ We at Microsoft respect and appreciate the important role that open source software plays in our industry. We respect and we appreciate the passion and the great contribution that open source developers make in our industry… That is not what you have always heard from us, and I recognize that….”

Brad Smith, SVP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Microsoft Corporation OSBC (Open Source Business Conference), San Francisco, 3/25/08

Open Source:

not a fad

not a “magic bullet” either

part of a spectrum of choices for:

development methods

licensing terms

business models

Most likely, software users will continue to see a comingling of free, open source, and proprietary software products for as far as the eye can see. Foreword, Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software , MIT Press 2005

Microsoft:

supports open source models and ecosystems

competes with open source software products , just as with any competing product or business

By participating in a broad ecosystem that includes open source and commercial/proprietary software, Microsoft promotes the “ world of choice ” that will best develop and sustain customer and partner opportunity.

Microsoft’s Open Source Engagements partnerships communities technology research

Microsoft’s Open Source Engagements partnerships communities technology research 5,000,000 developers 75,000 partners 18,000,000 visits to Port25 75% Firefox 20% Linux/Unix 4,500,000 Channel9 visitors 5,000 Microsoft bloggers 40,000 Codeplex users hypervisor collaboration PHP optimization MySQLConnector to Visual Studio Linux / Windows interoperability System Center X-Plat OpenPegasus 3,800+ CodePlex projects 170,000+ Sourceforge projects 77K Windows 17K Windows-only 5K+ .NET 1,000,000 LoC on MSDN & TechNet 588 Shared Source license projects AIDS vaccine research tools usability / HCI research multi-year funded academic projects

Microsoft’s Open Source Commitments policy participation transparency innovation Open Source Interoperability Initiative Open Source ISV Forum Interoperability Forum Interoperability Vendor Alliance Windows Academic Program Microsoft Partner Program microsoft.com /opensource Patent Pledge for Open Source developers Interoperability Principles Open Specification Promise Port25 CodePlex SourceForge open protocol specifications standards support data portability Shared Source programs Open Source Software Lab Technology Visual Studio Express Visual Web Developer Express SQL Server Express, Compact Windows Server SE (DreamSpark) Office Live, Live Workspaces Popfly XNA Game Studio Robotics Studio (non-commercial) .NET Framework SharePoint Learning Kit ASP.NET AJAX IronPython, IronRuby ODF/OXML Translators Windows Installer XML Toolset Research PhotoSynth Haskell Programming Language Health Design Tools Machine Learning & Appl. Stat. Windows Research Kernel (WRK)

Microsoft today is an active participant in the Open Source community

Our question today… “ Is Open Source ready for primetime?”

Our question today… It depends. “ Is Open Source ready for primetime?”

Not all software is equal

Software Categories From Wikipedia’s Free Software Portal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Free_software/categories

Top Open Source Projects

Not all “Open Source” means equal

Open Source… audience philosophy model free!? OSS – Open Source Software FOSS – Free/Open Source Software FLOSS – Free/Libre/Open Source Software available source freeware / shareware etc. end user business executive architect manager developer system administrator etc. development approach licensing marketing monetization support services etc.

Not all “primetime” means equal

Open Source Software Third Party Software =

zero cost good enough lower complexity security more open cross-platform no vendor lock-in co mmunity-dr iv en de velopment Unclear trade-offs lower ongoing cost more complete features backwards compatibility more secure open standards interoperability commitment on support managed developm e nt open source software vendors proprietary software vendors

total cost feature set security open standards interoperability manageability reliability scalability etc. Rational, analytical decision

initial costs acquisition and deployment ongoing costs maintenance and end user costs benefits benefits to the organization It’s about VALUE

Open Source Microsoft Office? development model licensing model business model free for end-users? alternative revenue models such as services contracts, advertising, hardware OEM cost-shifting, fee-by-feature, etc.? how to ensure strategic direction alignment across a complex set of software projects and components? community-driven distributed collaboration vs. centrally coordinated and orchestrated development and maintenance how to maintain a centralized and specialized team of developers? e.g., ~2000 developers contributed to a year’s worth of Linux kernel releases (2.6.16 to 2.6.20), and the majority of developers are paid for this work (+60%) similarly (% paid), Eclipse: 86.9% MySql: 92.8%

Open Source Microsoft Office? Free! Free! Free! Online Enterprise Devices Desktop

Open Source Software Proprietary Commercial Software A World of Choice

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