Microsoft Becomes Official Apache Sponsor
A Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) official said Friday that the company has agreed to provide monetary and technical support to the Apache Software Foundation, an open source effort that promotes community-built tools and services.
"This sponsorship will enable the ASF to pay administrators and other support staff so that ASF developers can focus on writing great software," said Sam Ramji, senior director of Microsoft's platform strategy, in a blog post from the OSCON open source conference in Portland, Ore. Ramji did not disclose financial details, but the arrangement makes Microsoft a Platinum sponsor of Apache.
Apache officials welcomed the move, despite the group's sometimes rocky relationship with the world's biggest commercial software developer.
