Microsoft delivers the beta of a download manager and packaged open-source applications to make it easier for Web developers to install Web products. The move follows Microsoft's support for an Eclipse Foundation project related to Silverlight and precedes sponsorship of the Government Open Source Conference.Microsoft
and
OpenLogic
both made moves Oct. 15 to further their open-source initiatives, with Microsoft
releasing new software for Web developers and OpenLogic announcing new
professional services to help companies increase their usage of open-source
software.
Microsoft delivered the beta of a download manager and packaged
open-source applications to make it easier for Web developers to install Web
products and tools for building next-generation Web applications. The new
software from Microsoft includes Web PI (Web Platform Installer), a free
download manager that simplifies the installation of Microsoft's development tools,
from .NET Framework 3.5 to ASP.NET
to Silverlight, for building Web applications.
Microsoft also announced the delivery of its Web AI (Web App Installer), which
it said is a Web application gallery that manages the setup, configuration and
acquisition of various popular ASP.NET and
PHP open-source Web applications and provides guidance for developers building
applications that run well and scale in both hosted and cloud environments.
Applications in this gallery include WordPress, Drupal, phpBB, DotNetNuke and Graffiti,
as well as several other popular open-source applications.
Web PI and Web AI will be available at www.microsoft.com/web, Microsoft's
online community for Web professionals, where developers can easily access
Microsoft's Web technologies, resources and best practices for building
advanced Web applications, the company said.
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