MS claims to love open source

Microsoft previously accused Linux and other open source providers of violating more than 200 of its patents, says The Telegraph.

But Jean Paoli, GM of Microsoft's interoperability strategy team, is attempting to build bridges between the two communities, and acknowledges that Microsoft's stance in the past has not always been helpful.

“We love open source,” he told Network World, an industry publication. “We have worked with open source for a long time now.” He said Microsoft's distrust of open source in general, and Linux in particular, was “really very early on” in the process, “a really long time ago”, and that Microsoft had understood its mistake.

Oracle has replaced Microsoft as the open source community's number one enemy, according to Adobe System's open source boss, reports The Register.

David McAllister, the Flash and Photoshop maker's open source and standards director, said in a blog post last week that the implosion of the OpenSolaris Governing Board highlighted how “the axis of evil has shifted south about 850 miles or so”.

The lack of love Oracle has shown for the “open source culture of Sun [Microsystems]” since Larry Ellison's company bought the MySQL database firm earlier this year has unnerved many in the [open source] world. And McAllister couldn't resist putting the boot in about the whole sorry affair.

Open source private and public cloud computing software developer Cloud.com announced that its platform CloudStack now supports VMware vSphere 4.1 and VMware vCenter Server, reveals eWeek.

The company said this new support enables enterprises and service providers that have already standardised on VMware virtualisation technologies to extend their capabilities into the cloud without requiring changes to their existing infrastructure or virtualisation management tools.

Jian Zhen, director of cloud computing solutions for VMware says: “Cloud.com's support underscores customer demand for developing cloud strategies on the industry's only enterprise-class virtual infrastructure”.