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This is a presentation held at eLiberatica 2009. http://www.eliberatica.ro/2009/ One of the biggest events of its kind in Eastern Europe, eLiberatica brings community leaders from around the world to discuss about the hottest topics in FLOSS movement, demonstrating the advantages of adopting, using and developing Open Source and Free Software solutions. The eLiberatica organizational committee together with our speakers and guests, have graciously allowed media representatives and all attendees to photograph, videotape and otherwise record their sessions, on the condition that the photos, videos and recordings are licensed under the Creative Commons Share-Alike 3.0 License.TRANSCRIPT
Participating in a World of Choice: practical aspects about Open Source and Microsoft
Todi PruteanuPlatform Strategy [email protected]
Zoli HerczegNational Technology Officer
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:– 5,000,000 PHP developers in the world
that developed 20,000,000 Web sites– 2.13% from Romania– 83.87% on Windows
• Hm…
• Expression Web 2.0– Broadens tool focus to support PHP site
editing, built-in Web server
• ADOdb– First LGPL/BSD Open Source project
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
OPEN SOURCE HEROES
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.
{Răzvan Hobeanu} www.kenubi.com
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
“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»”
“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”
{Nicolae Crefelean}
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
www.phpfusion.ro
{Adi Andreiaș} www.elvsoft.com
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#
“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”
{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
“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.”
{Mihai Nadăș}
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
www.AnswerJoy.com (coming soon)
“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
{Alexandru Cîrcei} www.live2c.net
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)
