Microsoft, you're driving open source advocates nuts!
April 30, 2008 By Mitchell Ashley (NetworkWorld)
Who would have thunk it. Microsoft integrates OpenPegasus open source software into System Center Operations Manager to extend management to Linix and Unix systems. Plus, Microsoft's adding connectors to managed Novell SUSE, HP-UX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Sun Solaris boxes. OpenPegasus is published under the MIT open source license, a much less restrictive license than the popularly used GPL.
Frankly, I'm still in shock. I would have never guessed we'd see such an announcement from Microsoft. Yes, it's significant that they will manage non-Windows operating systems. That, I think, was inevitable. But using open source software in such a public way to do it is a shocker.








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