[ale] Linux Magazine shilling for M$?

Brian Pitts brian at polibyte.com
Thu Mar 26 14:14:56 EDT 2009


Jeff Lightner wrote:
> This link is laughable:
> 
> http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7269/
> 
>  
> 
> They seem to imply M$ is doing something for OSS with web but then
> almost immediately show the tool delivers MS-SQL and blithely ignore the
> fact it doesn't offer MySQL or any other OSS database.
>  

That article doesn't make what microsoft is doing very clear. My
understanding is that the web app gallery is intended to make it easier
to deploy open source web applications (e.g. wordpress, drupal, gallery)
on the microsoft stack.

All the best,
Brian Pitts


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