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Microsoft Open Source Strategy: CodePlex keeps Growing

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Roberto Galoppini
on July 8, 2009
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Yesterday Microsoft announced that the number of projects hosted on CodePlex breached the 10,000 mark, just after CodePlex celebrated its third anniversary.

Even if numbers are not impressive compared with Google code - becoming home to over 80.000 projects in half the time - it is definitely a measure of how seriously Microsoft is taking its open source strategy.

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Roberto has over 20 years experience in the computer industry, and has spent the last 10 years working in the intersection of open source software and business development. Roberto has taken an active interest in different open source projects and organizations, he also served on some advisory boards, and helped large IT vendors, open source vendors and customers to design and deploy their open source strategies. He works at SourceForge, and opinions expressed here don't necessarily represent employer's positions, strategies, or opinion.