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April 27th, 2004, 05:50 PM
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Open Source for MSFT Languages and Platform
I'm looking for Wrox reader input on use of open source code in your Microsoft language and platform projects
What open source tools, code, or anything else do you use in your work that you think is cool that is worthy of pointing out to other people?
Again, just focused on Microsoft dev topics.
Jim Minatel
Senior Acquisitions Editor
Wiley Technology Publishing
WROX Press
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May 25th, 2004, 07:37 AM
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Heh! Yeah. :)
The old P2P website used to run on the Windows version of MySQL, running on Windows 2000 Advanced Server. I was terrifically fast and very reliable. The site also ran a Lyris listserver driven by PostgreSQL on Debian behind this. The site was essentially, a Windows 2000, ASP and IIS5.0 driven website, however, using feeds from both databases (the MySQL one being used for simple page content and site structure, and the PostgreSQL one holding the archive of messages). Dave Long of Wrox built an archiving system that pulled these archived mails out into a more readily available form: this is what you still see today, if you hit the "archives" link, on the left of the page. The system as a whole was very reliable (handling over 50,000 individual subscribers, and also serving to send the Wrox Developers Journal, once a fortnight - that latter was a 140,000-job send, on its own).
So, since the brief was to build a system that cost as little as possible (in real terms, the saving was probably about five to six thousand dollars), was as reliable and scalable as possible, while fitting into Wrox's "all Microsoft" approach to web serving, I think it was a pretty cool example of what you can get done with what's available elsewhere and still be a Microsoft developer.
Dan
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April 20th, 2005, 11:43 AM
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Here we are gradually migrating away from MS stuff, but we're with having to use windows for the next few years as we need to run Access.
So client side we're using firefox, openoffice, thunderbird, qcad, jedit, the GIMP and building apps with java (which isn't free software, but is open source (just)). We've found all of them to be fantastic products, often better than the proprietary alternatives...
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