Microsoft should open SQL Server
Former Microsoft employee Stephen Wally (Stephen Walli) left the company about two years ago to set up his own startup (he hasn’t told yet which one). At Microsoft, he worked as a Product Unit Manager in the Interix division, and before that, he founded a startup Softway Systems, which developed the Interix environment for porting UNIX programs under Windows NT. Microsoft bought Softway Systems in 1999, and Stephen Wally worked there for about five years, and then moved to the position of vice president of open source strategy development at Optaros.
In his blog, Stephen Wally published two interesting posts with practical tips on what Microsoft should do in the field of open source software. In his opinion, those small experiments that Microsoft carried out earlier are not enough. It is necessary to make more courageous, significant steps.
In his first post, Stephen Wally advises Microsoft to start publishing SQL Server source codes, and change the business model for this product to a paid subscription to the SQL Server Network. In other words, it is recommended to adopt the model that Red Hat Network successfully uses for the MySQL Network. The fact is that now SQL Server buyers are not buying a program at all, but a solution based on SQL Server, and support is an integral part of it. Based on this, it can be assumed that a subscription to the SQL Server Network will be in demand. Source code is better to publish under the license GPL2, and not GPL3.
Over the next two years, someone will definitely try to make a “cross between” MySQL and SQL Server . After all, an open database has a modular structure, so it encourages such experiments. Moreover, it is very common that the MySQL database runs under Windows .
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In the second post, Stephen Wally gives similar advice regarding SharePoint Server. It can also be published under the GPL2 license, open source codes, and profit can be obtained from a paid subscription to the SharePoint Server Network.
Wally also recommends that Microsoft establish relationships with the Eclipse Foundation and the Mono community and release Visual Studio and Rotor 2.0 under the Eclipse Public License and within the (Rotor) ECMA Base Class under MIT X11 so that it is compatible with the rest of the Mono Base Class library.
In his blog, Stephen Wally published two interesting posts with practical tips on what Microsoft should do in the field of open source software. In his opinion, those small experiments that Microsoft carried out earlier are not enough. It is necessary to make more courageous, significant steps.
In his first post, Stephen Wally advises Microsoft to start publishing SQL Server source codes, and change the business model for this product to a paid subscription to the SQL Server Network. In other words, it is recommended to adopt the model that Red Hat Network successfully uses for the MySQL Network. The fact is that now SQL Server buyers are not buying a program at all, but a solution based on SQL Server, and support is an integral part of it. Based on this, it can be assumed that a subscription to the SQL Server Network will be in demand. Source code is better to publish under the license GPL2, and not GPL3.
Over the next two years, someone will definitely try to make a “cross between” MySQL and SQL Server . After all, an open database has a modular structure, so it encourages such experiments. Moreover, it is very common that the MySQL database runs under Windows .
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In the second post, Stephen Wally gives similar advice regarding SharePoint Server. It can also be published under the GPL2 license, open source codes, and profit can be obtained from a paid subscription to the SharePoint Server Network.
Wally also recommends that Microsoft establish relationships with the Eclipse Foundation and the Mono community and release Visual Studio and Rotor 2.0 under the Eclipse Public License and within the (Rotor) ECMA Base Class under MIT X11 so that it is compatible with the rest of the Mono Base Class library.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4975/
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