i keep catching myself getting far wordier than intended in these “summaries.” i’m going to work on that! catching up though. this makes 4 of 9 in this series. remember the days when microsoft was all about NOT developing for competing platforms to edge them out of the market? well, this post titled enabling open source software is all about the loving embrace of open source. open source with windows common engineering criteria (cec) drives consistency across products by requiring engineering compliance on a variety of factors with goals such as integration, manageability, security, reliability, etc. this same concept extends to all things cloud – private, hybrid, or public. so what’s all this cec stuff do for open source, you say? well, it means having the same goal. single pane of glass administration, things that work in one environment should translate pretty easily to another, etc. here’s things microsoft has been up to: linux community . microsoft has been pretty involv
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