Greetings all,
I wanted to take a quick moment to introduce myself. My name is Hank Janssen, and I am the director of program management for the Microsoft Open Source Technology Center in Redmond.
Will Coleman asked me to be available to answer a bunch of questions relating PHP and Microsoft. So I will try to do that in the next few days. I will post some of the questions we have gotten so far and give answers to them.
But before we go any further, let me tell a little more about myself. I have worked now for Microsoft for almost 3 years to the day. And if you asked me 4 years ago if I would ever work for Microsoft I would have laughed.
I have been working with UNIX and Later Linux and Other OSS for over 20 years. I started my work at AT&T and did a kernel programming for the SYS V process scheduler used for Digital Telephone switches (5ESS). While working at AT&T I designed a globally distributed database system before people knew what they were. Utilizing such golden oldies as uucp and rje. In the early and mid nineties I was the lead programmer and designer on a Point Of Sale system that did real time cell phone activations for Sprint. At that time the first anywhere in the US. It was solely build on and with OSS software, and deployed on Linux. Most of my career has been spend in applications development, data manipulation and database design and development. Prior to joining Microsoft 3 years ago, I worked for the last 7 years as an Architect for large (and small) cellular telephone companies.
Virtually all of the work I have been doing has been in or with UNIX, Linux and OSS related areas. Favorite languages remain C/C++ and favorite editor is still Emacs
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