Jim Zimmerman - ASP.NET, MVC, Ajax and ORM

I have to say that I am impressed with Microsoft this week.  They not only partnered with Zend to help PHP to run as fast if not faster on Windows than Linux and the LAMP stack, but  Microsoft also partnered with Novell to support their SuSe Linux distribution as an alternative deployment platform to Windows.  This partnership seems to be mostly about the virtualization and interoperability of the two operating systems along with some sort of coupon for Intellectual Property rights that only lawyers can describe.

Also note that Novell bought the company that started the Mono Project 4 or 5 years ago, which is the open source Linux version of the .NET framework.  I have always thought that Novell bought into the Mono project to eventually partner with Microsoft.  I also think that the only reason Microsoft made .NET open is so that this very moment would happen.  Wow are they smart. 

This is going to get very interesting.  Go to this Webcast of it in case you want to hear it from the horse's mouth.