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<h1><b><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:24.0pt;color:black'>Maybe of interest to some. Found this
of the ARNnet web site. </span></font></b><font size=3 color=black><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:24.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></h1>
<h1><b><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:24.0pt;color:black'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font></b><font
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color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></h1>
<h1><b><font size=6 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
24.0pt;color:black'>Linuxworld - Microsoft launches Linux site</span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
<p class=byline><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service</span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=datesummary><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>06/04/2006 13:40:40</span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=storybody><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Microsoft on Thursday at LinuxWorld is
expected to unveil a new Web site for users to find information about its Linux
and open-source interoperability efforts, according to the executive in charge
of those plans. </span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black;
mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=storybody><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Bill Hilf, general manager of platform
strategy group for Microsoft, will discuss the site -- <a
href="http://port25.technet.com">http://port25.technet.com</a> -- during his
keynote at the conference in Boston Thursday morning. The site will also go
live on Thursday. </span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black;
mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=storybody><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Hilf, who formerly worked on Linux
deployments at IBM, has been overseeing Microsoft's Linux and open-source
interoperability lab at its Redmond, Washington, campus for the past two years.
He recently moved into a more senior position, replacing Martin Taylor, who has
moved over to the Windows Live team. Hilf now is in charge of all of
Microsoft's open-source compatibility efforts, including its controversial Get
the Facts anti-Linux campaign and its SharedSource initiative, which is the
company's own version of allowing developers access to some of its proprietary
source code. </span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black;
mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=storybody><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>The aim of the new Web site is to make
Microsoft's efforts to ensure its proprietary systems interoperate with
open-source software, including Linux, are transparent. The company also is
encouraging advice about how to advance these goals, Hilf said. </span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=storybody><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>"It's going to be the interface to
all of the open-source lab work Microsoft does, where a variety of people blog
-- including myself and others on my team," he said. "People in the
community also can provide feedback and give us ideas for better
interoperability." </span></font><font color=black><span style='color:
black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=storybody><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Even the site's name reflects this notion
of an open channel of communication, Hilf said. Port 25 is the server port that
sends and receives e-mail on a server, thus facilitating two-way communication,
he said. </span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=storybody><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>In the past several years, Microsoft has
appeared to become more open-source friendly, but mainly from a market
perspective. Without planning to support open source itself as a strategy, the
company has realized that Linux and other open-source software is here to stay.
>From a business perspective, it's important that Microsoft technology can
coexist peacefully in the same network with those products, Hilf said. </span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=storybody><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>"The great thing is that as a market
we've gotten past the David and Goliath stuff," he said. "The reality
is that customers run different technologies. ... We're still a commercial
software company, but in some cases people want to run Linux, want to run
Windows virtualized, want to manage Linux using [Microsoft products]. In those
situations we can find a way to interoperate." </span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>To that end, Microsoft earlier this week
at LinuxWorld released Virtual Server 2005 R2, the latest version of its
virtualization environment for Windows that</span></font><span
class=EmailStyle15><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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