Marking the second anniversary of its controversial interoperability agreement, Microsoft and Novell this week announced the upcoming test version of Moonlight, which makes Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet application technology in Linux, the general announced by the senior management Package of Suse Linux Enterprise for the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2's.
November 2006 agreement the two companies have co-operation provided by Microsoft's Suse Linux from Novell support certificates, and agreed not to prosecute the other side of the customer's intellectual property rights. Some people protested, the legal agreement that Microsoft's Linux infringes its patents.
However, the two companies are moving in the same two milestones. Moonlight is an open source implementation of Silverlight's, Linux users with high-definition multimedia functions, according to a representative of Microsoft. The project is Novell's footsteps.
Moonlight will provide a plug-in open-source Firefox Web browser, Microsoft and Novell said. First of all, the project's source code is published in May. The test version will be provided free of charge.
Senior management package Suse Linux Enterprise for the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 is due in the first half of 2009.
Microsoft and Novell collaboration management system in order to reduce customer management tasks related to mixed IT environments, Microsoft and Novell said. Senior management package Suse Linux Enterprise Linux extension of the cross-platform monitoring capabilities, Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. It can manage Windows and Linux servers from a single console.
In a separate development in the field of open source, Yahoo said this week that its BrowserPlus Web development technologies will provide an open manner.
BrowserPlus feature plug-in framework for the building of Web applications include desktop. It can extend the use of JavaScript API to access the desktop facilities.
"As an open publish BrowserPlus, Yahoo will enable the development of an open platform in the browser desktop applications on the Internet," Yahoo said. "This will allow developers to the platform in the rapidly expanding distributed. Yahoo's hope is that contributions to the community and will be reviewed to ensure that BrowserPlus to maintain a safe, strong platform to run all the popular operating system and browser."
Yahoo said that the 2-year-old project is a failure in some areas. The company has been looking for innovative ideas to expose the local customers and the application of massage they can re-use the client library. Yahoo extract a good problem-solving a wide range of attractive, so that their people can easily make an application in the company, Yahoo said.
"At the end of our two-year run, we have a lot of C libraries, which run every time the operating system under the sun, the implementation of tasks, from the mundane (for example, logging), exotic. We disappointed that we did not Yahoo Group customers have to use things are falling over each other, we in the construction. But we really learned a lot on this experience, "Lloyd Hilailel, Yahoo BrowserPlus group said in a statement.
Microsoft, Novell eye Moonlight beta, system management
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
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