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Release -what- as Open Source?

Posted by JDRay at 2007-04-25 17:47

Why on Earth should they open up Sharepoint? Oh, don't get me wrong, I'd like to see a free version that would run on a Unix box, because I like the product and don't want to run Windows to run it, but why would they want to open it up? It's a feature of their platform, and something that draws sales of that platform. They'd be fools to release it to the wild.

The idea of them supporting Mono is a good one, and I believe one that's a major component of their relationship with Novell. Supporting Mono would give an avenue for a majority of their software to run entirely cross-platform, and given the popularity of C# (for good reason), there would finally be serious competition for Java. Wouldn't that be nice?