Friday, July 25, 2008 Microsoft announced that, Microsoft will sponsor $100k money to the Apache Software Foundation and Microsoft called this as “The Apache Way“. Microsoft also contributing a patch to ADOdb. Microsoft also moved 1000 protocols from it’s Communications Protocol Program to its Open Specification Promise. This move help developers to use code without any fear of patient law suite.

Ramji Said, who runs the Open Source Software Lab for Microsoft and is its director of open source technology strategy.

PHP is a popular language. Nearly 80% of PHP projects are developed on Windows but that 80% are deployed on Linux. “If we create great PHP support and we create excitement among PHP developers then there is opportunity for Windows Servers. We are passionate about this and with great support from our legal team we found a way to do it.

ADOdb patch enables support for SQL Server through a new “native driver for PHP” that was built by Microsoft’s SQL Server team.

Jim Jagielski, chairman of the Apache Software Foundation said,

The collection of sponsors that we have allow us to provide the supporting infrastructure to our community so they can focus on writing high quality code and make it available to everyone.

Microsoft’s $100k sponsorship to Apache software foundation make them one of platinum sponsors of Apache software foundation. Other two sponsors are Google and Yahoo

Source : Networlworld

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