Microsoft have launched a new site for the discussion of open source technologies and Microsoft technologies. Microsoft apparently has an extensive lab where Open Source tools are tested, Linux playing a major part. This website will be a forum for discussion of it’s findings. On the face of this seems fairly benevolent, discussion can only be a good thing
However Microsoft have a extreme commercial interest in seeing the deployment of it’s own products over the deployment of Linux for example. This makes me slightly skeptical as to how objective some of these articles can be. Microsoft have even coined a new phrase “Coopetitition”. Keep an eye on the site, it might actually prove interesting.