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  • a crowd of people at FOSSASIA
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    Highlights from FOSSASIA Open Tech Summit 2017

    In an unprecedented partnership, Microsoft and FOSSASIA (the largest open source technology advocate in Asia) worked together to showcase Microsoft’s commitment towards open source software (OSS) communities through the FOSSASIA Open Tech Summit 2017 event, as well as the satellite community events and influencer engagements.
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    Develop big data applications with MapR on Microsoft Azure

    Microsoft and MapR have partnered to bring you the first of a series of joint webinars! This free webinar, Develop big data applications with MapR on Microsoft Azure, will be presented by Asit Parija (Solution Architect, MapR Technologies) and Ben Sadeghi (Big Data & Advanced Analytics Specialist, Microsoft SE Asia & Korea).
  • a close up of a person tossing three dice in the air
    5 min read

    Making a winning bet on open source project selection

    Selecting an open source project isn’t just about the project’s ability to meet your technical and functional requirements, there’s also very important non-functional aspects that you should consider.
  • a circuit board with text overlay, How to Optimize your Data Architecture with Hadoop on Azure
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    How to optimize your data architecture with Hadoop on Azure

    Microsoft and Hortonworks are collaborating to bring you a series of live webinars on Hadoop!  These are the first two webinars: Accelerating Big Data Collection for Azure Cloud (February 2017) and A Winning Cloud Strategy For Your Hadoop Environment (March 2017).
  • FOSSASIA Summit banner
    1 min read

    Get ready for FOSSASIA Summit 2017!

    Microsoft has worked with open source communities for a long time now and we enable open source on our platforms, as well as contribute to the communities we participate in.