This document discusses Microsoft's "Open Edge" strategy of combining open source software (OSS) with their commercial core products. It lists several ways Microsoft incorporates OSS, such as supporting PHP on IIS, jQuery in Visual Studio, OpenPegasus for System Center, and over 300 OSS components in SharePoint. It also discusses Microsoft contributions to OSS projects like Linux kernel drivers for Hyper-V, AMQP protocol support in Apache Qpid, and integrations with Moodle and Chem4Word. The strategy aims to provide customers choice and flexibility through an open hybrid environment.

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6. Open Edge
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Visual Studio SharePoint
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System Center
Exchange SQL Server
Commercial
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Office Windows Windows Server
CS = Commercially Developed Software
OSS = Open Source Software

7. 1 PHP on IIS (Windows Server)
• FastCGI extension
• Web App Gallery (WordPress, Drupal, Gallery,
etc)
2 6 WISP (Windows, IIS, SQL Server,
2 PHP)
• SQL Server driver for PHP
OSS
OSS
CS
• PDO (PHP Data Objects)
3 jQuery distributed with Visual Studio
3 7 4 OpenPegasus support for System
Center Operations Manager
Visual Studio SharePoint
OSS
OSS
CS
System Center 4 Open Source extensions for
5 Microsoft Platforms(e.g.,
Exchange SQL Server scientific and academic
research)
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5 6 DotNetNuke – open source framework
for website content management
Office Windows Windows Server 7 SharePoint – over 300+ open source
components on CodePlex
Support for Linux on Hyper-V
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Linux device drivers to support
virtualization of Linux on Windows Server
• Microsoft contribution to the Linux kernel

8. Live@edu + Moodle Hyper-V + Linux
The Live Services Plug-in is a free Microsoft has contributed Hyper-V
ad-in specifically designed for device drivers to the Linux kernel.
Moodle that integrates Live@edu This allows Linux operating
services such as email, calendar, systems to run in the enlightened
and search directly with the Moodle mode giving it a similar degree of
user experience for the classroom. efficiency as a Windows virtual
machine running on top of Hyper-V.
Chem4Word AMQP + Apache Qpid
In partnership with the Univ. of Microsoft is a member of the AMQP
Cambridge and Microsoft Research, working group, an open Internet
the Chem4Word open source project Protocol for business messaging.
supports the authoring and rendering Microsoft is contributing to the
of semantically-rich chemistry Apache Qpid project, an
information in Word 2007 documents. implementation of the AMQP protocol.

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