Participating in a World of Choice: practical
aspects about Open Source and Microsoft
Todi Pruteanu Zoli Herczeg
Platform Strategy Manager National Technology Officer
todi.pruteanu@microsoft.com zoli.herczeg@microsoft.com

Agenda
• Participating in a world of choice
• Technical Collaboration
• Open Source Heroes
• Next

TECHNICAL COLLABORATION

{Silver, Moon}light
• Enhanced cross-platform Silverlight capabilities with
Moonlight
• It works for Agora Media
– 2 ITTRENDS Roundtables and 4 Agora Technology Conferences
powered (live and on-demand) by Silverlight and Moonlight

PHP on Windows
• PHP Classes Blog on May 12, 2009: • Expression Web 2.0
– 5,000,000 PHP developers in the world – Broadens tool focus to support PHP site
that developed 20,000,000 Web sites editing, built-in Web server
– 2.13% from Romania • ADOdb
– 83.87% on Windows – First LGPL/BSD Open Source project
• Hm… that Microsoft has contributed to
• SQL Server PHP Driver
– Designed to enable PHP
applications to be developed and
deployed on SQL Server
• IIS7+ FastCGI
– Improvement the performance
of PHP on Windows
• PHPAzure (PHP SDK for Windows
Azure)
– Ppen source project to provide software
development kit for Windows Azure
and Windows Azure Storage – Blobs,
Tables & Queues
• …

Web, virtualization

Today's heroes don't need superhuman strength, or x-ray vision – they
need communities, code and choices to develop and deploy amazing
software. These {Open Source} Heroes are doing amazing work with open
source software and Microsoft technology. Do what you love, do it well.
OPEN SOURCE HEROES

{Răzvan Hobeanu} www.kenubi.com
“When I first started
studying Windows
internals, the lack of
documentation made it
seem as an impossible
subject to research.
Thanks to some people
who released their code
as open source, I finally
understood the meaning
of «sharing is caring»”
Title: Software Consultant
Place of work: Kenubi
Location: Bucharest, România
Inspiration: Rajeev Nagar, the Sysinternals guys
Tools of the trade: Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset,
TortoiseSVN

{Nicolae Crefelean} www.phpfusion.ro
“It’s aberrant to keep the knowledge for ourselves.
After I understood that I founded our community:
PHP-Fusion Romania. Others understood that
and we are team mates today. Microsoft
understands that and it supports our project
according to our needs. We want to develop
(ourselves). I’m passionate with what I do and I’m
glad stubbornness can endorse this kind of
projects and gather people that share even more
knowledge”
Title: Founder
Place of work: PHP-Fusion Romania
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Inspiration: My parents, sister, friends, people
Tools of the trade: PHP, MySQL, Windows, other
Open Source software + an apparently infinite
amount of patience

{Adi Andreiaș} www.elvsoft.com
“Interoperability allows
us to get the best of both
worlds. We're writing
Python code on
Windows Vista and using
Microsoft tools and code
gets deployed on Linux
and Windows servers.
The power of choice
means that businesses
can be more flexible”
Title: Owner
Place of work: Elvsoft
Location: Cluj-Napoca, România
Inspiration: Guido van Rossum
Tools of the trade: Python, Django, jQuery, Eclipse,
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Windows, Visual Studio, C#

{Gabriel Enea} www.joobsbox.com
“Working for our customers is
nice, working for our projects
is great, but working on an
open source project is exciting
because it is a good way to
express not only to the end
users but also to developers,
people like you - developers.
It's like working with a big
team, sharing experience,
ideas and good solutions”
Title: Owner Joobs.ro
Place of work: Iasi, Romania
Inspiration: Life’s nature
Tools of the trade: C#, ASP.NET MVC,
ADO.NET Entity Framework, Visual Studio
2008

{Mihai Nadăș} www.AnswerJoy.com (coming soon)
“I always considered that, like imagination, software should not be limited.
Source availability and community contribuition takes software at a whole new
level. At AnswerJoy.com we use tools that enable high flexibility and through it
we get to deliver the best solution for our users.”
Title: Co-Founder
Place of work: AnswerJoy.com
Location: Cluj-Napoca, România
Inspiration: Imagine Cup
Tools of the trade: a power team, JavaScript, Erlang,
PHP, Thrift, .NET Framework, LINQ2SQL, SQL Server,
Windows

{Alexandru Cîrcei} www.live2c.net
“We believe in the future of Open Source as a business model as well as
we’re convinced all shops and related services will move to the Web. This
is why we developed Live2c.net, an Open Source platform for e-
commerce, delivered as a service (SaaS). The first one of its kind using
Microsoft technology”
Title: CoFounder
Place of work: live2C.net
Location: Bucharest, România
Inspiration: Morten Lund - Chief Ideologist
Tools of the trade: a Power Team .NET Framework,
LINQ2SQL, SQL Server

Next steps
• Participate: watch us closely on
microsoft.com/opensource
• Partner: BizSpark
• Grow: build open source business with
Microsoft
• Learn: Windows Academic Program
(CRK/WRK/ProjectOz), Rotor (SSCLI), Common
Compiler Infrastructure (CCI)