http://www.intalio.com/news/blog-posts/eclipsecon-keynote-open-source-and-microsoft/ Leader in Open Source BPMS Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:37:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://www.intalio.com/news/blog-posts/eclipsecon-keynote-open-source-and-microsoft/#comment-37774 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:16:19 +0000 http://www.intalio.com/news/blog-posts/eclipsecon-keynote-open-source-and-microsoft/#comment-37774 [...] Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? provides an excellent summary of the interactions with both Microsoft and Sun last week at EclipseCon. There were two money quotes in this article: [...] […] Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? provides an excellent summary of the interactions with both Microsoft and Sun last week at EclipseCon. There were two money quotes in this article: […]

]]> http://www.intalio.com/news/blog-posts/eclipsecon-keynote-open-source-and-microsoft/#comment-37597 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:45:58 +0000 http://www.intalio.com/news/blog-posts/eclipsecon-keynote-open-source-and-microsoft/#comment-37597 [...] Of the two sightings, Microsoft’s was more dramatic, with Open Source lab director Sam Ramji delivering a keynote that was covered well by eWeek’s Daryl Taft, with interesting perspectives from Iona’s Eric Newcomer plus a blow-by-blow session description from Intalio’s Jonathan Crow. The headlines were that Microsoft promised to support the Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) visual controls on Vista’s Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), meaning Eclipse developers could develop GUIs natively on Vista. The other announcement was that Microsoft would support interoperability between Cardspace and Eclipse’s Project Higgins covering identity management on the web. What was interesting was what Ramji didn’t say or left open, such as the possibility of Microsoft joining Eclipse (no answer), and interoperability with Silverlight, which would be natural because it’s Microsoft’s emerging cross-platform rich Internet client (or Adobe AIR killer). [...] […] Of the two sightings, Microsoft’s was more dramatic, with Open Source lab director Sam Ramji delivering a keynote that was covered well by eWeek’s Daryl Taft, with interesting perspectives from Iona’s Eric Newcomer plus a blow-by-blow session description from Intalio’s Jonathan Crow. The headlines were that Microsoft promised to support the Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) visual controls on Vista’s Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), meaning Eclipse developers could develop GUIs natively on Vista. The other announcement was that Microsoft would support interoperability between Cardspace and Eclipse’s Project Higgins covering identity management on the web. What was interesting was what Ramji didn’t say or left open, such as the possibility of Microsoft joining Eclipse (no answer), and interoperability with Silverlight, which would be natural because it’s Microsoft’s emerging cross-platform rich Internet client (or Adobe AIR killer). […]

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