Microsoft will present its strategy for Linux and Windows
compatibility to the open source community at this week's
LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco.
Bill Hilf, director, platform technology strategy at Microsoft,
who heads a test lab running 400 Linux and Unix servers, is due to
speak on the lessons learned from interoperability testing and
management infrastructure for running mixed environments with
Windows, Linux and Unix.
Other speakers include Oracle president Charles Phillips, who
will discuss Linux and open source in service-oriented
architectures and data grids. In this architecture, businesses can
build composite applications by linking third-party services. With
services becoming the predominant way that business processes are
built, Phillips is expected to discuss the implications for open
source services.
Steve Mills, senior vice-president and group executive for the
software group at IBM, will discuss how Linux is transitioning to
mainstream use for servers.
Alongside products from major IT suppliers such as Oracle, IBM,
Novell and SAP, the show will preview new and ongoing open source
products and programmes. One such project is OpenNMS, which claims
to be the world's first enterprise-grade network management
platform.
Another initiative being showcased at LinuxWorld is the Linux
Test Project, a joint project of SGI, IBM, OSDL, Bull and Wipro
Technologies. The goal is to deliver to the open source community
easily deployable, automated test suites that validate the
functionality reliability, robustness, and stability of Linux.