Vanilla is a community sponsor of the Make Web Not War conference in Montreal on May 27, 2010. You should definitely check it out!
More importantly, however, I wanted to tell you about the FTW “For The Web” coding competition:
Here’s the deal: Simply code or port a web application onto Windows/IIS or Windows Azure. That’s it, that’s all. All applications that fall into any of the following categories, and are on Windows/IIS or the Windows Azure Cloud are eligible.
- PHP Application (PHP on Windows+IIS or PHP on Windows Azure)
- Windows Azure Cloud Application (Any Language: .Net, PHP, Ruby, Python…)
- Open Government Application (Use of Open Data Catalogues on Windows or Windows Azure on Any Language)
Aside from the chance to win come nice techy hardware, the winner will get bragging rights, and a romantic dinner with Mark from Vanilla*.
*Note: Mark will not actually attend or pay for the dinner.
Sponsored by your good old friends from Microsoft. no matter how much MS says they aren’t worried about opensource software, their actions speak louder.
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Sheesh, is Microsoft getting *that* desperate??
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How desparate? So desparate that they’d want to partner with Vanilla? Did you know I used to work at Microsoft? :D
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Nono, desperate to have people port stuff to IIS & Azure.
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M$ intentions for opensource software isnt good. The only reason they have taken routes like this is because they are being forced to. Why would anyone want to port to IIS and Azure. They wouldn’t, unless M$ created perks and benefits or a unreal “cause” to. If users wanted these apps to run on M$, then they would help develop it for that intention. The point is that they dont, and users of opensource software support, get this, opensource OS.
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