A NEW WAVE OF OPENNESS AT

T e c h R a d a r , J u n e 2 0 1 5

THE CATHEDRAL AND THE BAZAAR(S)

•  Development Methodology

•  Social Movement

•  Frugal innovation

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“Linux is a cancer.” - Steve Ballmer

WHY NOW? And when did this all start happening?

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AN ABOUT FACE?

•  Cloud based services

•  Customers as testers

•  Developer buy in

•  Competition

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“…it (OSS) isn't successful in building a mass market and making powerful, easy-to-use software broadly accessible to consumers.” - MS Exec, 2001

WHAT APPS ARE BEING OPEN SOURCED? And why should we care?

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MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENTS

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Roslyn +

Open CLR

Azure +

Docker

.NET Framework

TypeScript Visual Studio

+ Git

DOCKER, AZURE

■  Open source engine to automate deployment of applications inside software containers… on Linux

■  Docker can now be integrated with Microsoft’s Azure service

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ROSLYN, OPEN CLR, .NET FRAMEWORK

•  By opening up it’s CLR and web development framework, MS hopes to have more apps that can be developed and run on different platforms.

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TYPESCRIPT

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WHAT DOES THIS MEAN GOING FORWARD? And should we be optimistic… or worried?

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PARTING THOUGHTS

•  Is Microsoft for real?

•  Windows… open source?

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Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle

route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.

- Eric Steven Raymond

THANK YOU ‘Wole Solana

osolana@thoughtworks.com @wolexsho