Ever wondered M$ will recognize open source products or leverage its tools to comport open source products? I received an event notification mail from Microsoft. I was surprised to see PHP Developer Day as subject. It wouldn't have been surprising for you to see Microsoft Silverlight ad in every website you browse. Infact I saw quite few pop ups from linux forums too :). I love the way they market their products but never imagined them to go to an extent facilitate Silverlight app development with eclipse. I would be more than happy to hear any update on this event.
1. Build Mission Critical Applications on the Microsoft Platform using Eclipse (Nahas Mohammed, Technology Advisor, Microsoft)
Microsoft has delivered multiple technologies that focus on interoperability with non-Microsoft and Open Source technologies. Learn how to use Eclipse tools today to build Silverlight applications that run on PCs and Macs, how to work in a cross-platform environment and yet integrate your solution with your designer team. Also get to know about Microsoft’s commitment to openness with the Azure Services Platform.
3. MS SQL Business Intelligence with mySQL (Praveen Srivatsa, Director, Asthrasoft)
Have your data residing on mySQL but want to leverage MS SQL server capabilities to build Business Intelligence solutions? Then this is the right session for you. This session looks at leveraging your existing investments in mySQL and leveraging the Reporting and Analysis Services from MS SQL server to extract data out from your mySQL data store to build meaningful dashboards. It looks at how we can integrate SQL Reporting Services and use SSIS to harvest the data from mySQL. It also looks at how we can replicate or sync data between MS SQL Server and mySQL to be able to share the relevant data across these databases.