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Microsoft, Open Source and Interoperability

Overview An up-to-date view of Microsoft's Interoperability focus, including a walk through of the deep infrastructure testing scenarios currently in-progress in Microsoft's Open Source Software (OSS) Interoperability Lab is presented in this webcast. This webcast will include a discussion of technologies, Shared Source projects, CodePlex, and interesting partnerships with Sun and Open Source companies such as SugarCRM and JBoss. The webcast will give a strong technical and business overview of the key interoperability priorities at Microsoft today.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Microsoft
Live Date	31st March 2007 01:00 BST
Format	Webcast
Topics	Linux - Open Source

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