﻿ Microsoft's open-source strategy: A picture is worth a
thousand words | ZDNet    Summary: Does Microsoft have an open-
source strategy -- beyond finding new ways to thwart Linux? Sam
Ramji, Microsoft's Director of Platform Technology Strategy and
the company's Open Source Software Lab, says it does, and that
he can distill it down to one PowerPoint slide.   Does Microsoft
have an open-source strategy -- beyond finding new ways to
thwart Linux and other non-proprietary wares?  Sam Ramji,
Microsoft's Director of Platform Technology Strategy and the
company's Open Source Software Lab, says it does. And it's a lot
less touchy-feely than this definition, which is on the
Microsoft Open Source Web site: "The Microsoft open source
strategy is focused on helping customers and partners be
successful in today's heterogeneous technology world."   Ramji
has been one of the big advocates for interoperability between
open-source and closed-source Microsoft software at the company.
Ramji and other Microsoft officials have