Open Source Guy Takes the Hardest Job At Microsoft 325
jbrodkin writes "Gianugo Rabellino, founder of the Italian Linux Society and a key member of the Apache Software Foundation, traded his Linux and Mac PCs in for a Windows 7 laptop and took on a newly created job at Microsoft designed to encourage collaboration between Redmond and open source communities. 'Developers nowadays are mostly to be found in the open source world,' the new Microsoft executive says. 'We need to go where they are.' With Rabellino's help, Microsoft is expanding its successful partnership with PHP developers , but Steve Ballmer and crew are a long way from completely erasing their poor reputation in Linux and open source circles."
Grim future... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Grim future... (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Grim future... (Score:5, Funny)
That would be like Darth Vader and Adolf Hitler screwing and having a baby...
What Microsoft is doing (Score:4, Funny)
Microsoft knows the FOSS community has some power now. So instead of their old tactics, they're trying to be nice. Diplomatic.
As in, diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggie" whilst you find a rock.
Re:He's there for PHP (Score:4, Funny)
According to TFA, 'Rabellino's main focus right now "is to enable PHP to shine on our platforms."'
So, he's there to get people to migrate from LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP) systems to WIMP (Windows, IIS, MS-SQL, PHP) systems.
I think I will stick with TRAP (Tomcat, RESTful, Apache, Postgres) application stack..