Thursday, February 18, 2010

Microsoft to Talk Open Source at OSBC

Microsoft will be active at the Open Source Business Conference, acting as a sponsor and providing a keynote speaker. The software giant is continuing its drive to position itself as an ally of open source and to support open-source projects on Windows.

Microsoft plans to make a substantial showing at the upcoming Open Source Business Conference, in a continuation of the software giant's campaign to make nice with open source and support open-source projects on Windows.

In a blog post, Peter Galli, open-source community manager at Microsoft, laid out some of what the company will do at the OSBC event that runs March 17 to 18 in San Francisco.

For starters, Microsoft will be a Platinum sponsor of the event and will call on one of its emerging stars to keynote. Stuart McKee, Microsoft's national technology officer for the United States, will deliver a keynote on March 18. more........

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