Last week, I got an email from Garrett Serack, M’soft Open Source Community Developer. Microsoft have been kind enough to donate a set of ADOdb drivers for the new MSSQL Native Extension for PHP. You can download the extension here and the ADOdb drivers here.

Garrett also mentions that ADOdb is the first LGPL project that Microsoft has ever contributed to. I quote from his email to me:

ADODB is actually the first LGPL Open Source project that Microsoft has ever contributed to.
We’ve got a dozen or so others lined up and ready to go o other open source PHP projects
(GPL, BSD and others), But ADODB was the *FIRST*. You could say that contributing to ADODB
is Microsoft going from zero to one.

We announced it at OSCON, (see the post at http://port25.technet.com/archive/2008/07/25/oscon2008.aspx )
along with Microsoft becoming a platinum sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation. Either of
these two steps is such a good move for Microsoft, and both together, is a good sign that the
Company is learning.

Thanks Garrett.

PS: ADOdb is dual licensed as LGPL and BSD. Choose which license you want.

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