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Developers of proprietary software and free have only one path to the future interoperability. This conclusion is the result of exposures made the defenders of both currents in a convention held in Quito, Ecuador, last week.
Of the international meeting of renowned exhibitors participated in the region who shared their stories, experiences and visions regarding the development of open source software (Open Source) and owners. For advocates of open source, market and end customer behavior are pushing for developers to change their stance proprietary code and open up their code so that interoperability will gain ground and to blend the contributions of both currents benefit the end user. Shaun Walker, of Canada, who is co-founder and Chief Architect of DotNetNuke Corp. talked about the company´s flagship product of DNN, which is a software solutions provider to government agencies or state.

In the opinion of Walker, platform interoperability is a path which has already begun the transition, and there is no return, is the way forward. Today his company is getting closer to the segment of open source development with Microsoft. Cesar Brod is a renowned Brazilian computer began his career in 1982. He is founder and consultant to the company Brodtec, and specializes in creating business models for open source projects. Brod was more blunt about the direction to be taken by developers to the future and stated that, by dint of market pressure and the final customer, who no longer see if a software is proprietary or free, is shifting its business model worldwide, more than enough reason for businesses are taking a turn in attitude. Said he is already noticing signs, citing as examples Microsoft and Oracle.

Peter Galli, U.S., is senior manager of the Microsoft Open Source Community and editor of the Port-25 blog. Leads the disclosure of the open source community at Microsoft, where he works closely with the open source community internally and externally.

The scientist said the hard times he lived as an executive of his company when in Europe they closed the doors to participate in meetings with open source developers and that was the target of criticism over the alleged attitude of Microsoft to ignore the Open Source community . Then give details on the purpose of Port-25, and his approach to free developers, and went further to state that accompanies your company currently developing projects of this community. For Galli, interoperability is the path for which he is moving the technology community and reported that Microsoft currently has or delivers products with information on their codes.

The Brazilian also Everaldo Canuto, project developer who is open and inclusive multi-platform virtualization, and recognized for his work as a participant in many open source projects like Mono, Ubgdiplus, Moonlight, Stetic, Midgard, Gluezilla, among others, based his paper at the cross-platform interoperability and future.

Speaking to ABC Color said that many companies in the world aimed at achieving the integrated cross-platform, under pressure from experiencing natural growth and alternative solutions to their needs in the market. Like his colleagues, Canuto concludes that the way forward is one, although many differences may continue to be maintained.