Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 24th Aug 2007 13:24 UTC, submitted by irbis
Microsoft Microsoft will launch several projects around Linux and other open source technologies for allowing Indian customers the option to run its products on different operating systems and technologies. The initiative, to be rolled out in around a month's time, is aimed at grabbing "more market share for the Windows platform by allowing interoperability with open source technologies such as Linux," said Radhesh Balakrishnan, director, platform strategy, Microsoft India.
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lol @ the article
by anyweb on Fri 24th Aug 2007 13:37 UTC
anyweb
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2005-07-06

"The Novell alliance was just the beginning, “as Microsoft is now working on areas such as making Apache web server on Linux (a widely used application to run internet sites) run on Windows,” added Balakrishnan."

hello ! apache ALREADY runs on Windows,

here's the source for Windows > http://apache.dataphone.se/httpd/httpd-2.2.4-win32-src.zip

and here it is in msi format >
http://apache.dataphone.se/httpd/binaries/win32/apache_2.2.4-win32-...

ok, i'll go and read the rest of the article now...

cheers
anyweb

Edited 2007-08-24 13:39