Microsoft Buys Teamprise, Will Ship Linux Tools

spongman writes "Microsoft's Senior Vice President, Developer Division, S. Somasegar has announced that Microsoft has acquired Teamprise from Sourcegear, LLC, and will be shipping it as part of the upcoming Visual Studio 2010 release. Teamprise is an Eclipse plugin (and related tools) for connecting to Team Foundation Server, Microsoft's source-control/project-management system. What's most interesting about this is not only that Microsoft has realized that heterogeneous development platforms are important to their developer customers, but the fact that Microsoft themselves will now be developing and shipping products based on those heterogeneous platforms, including 5 versions of Unix."

Announced on ... Friday 13th

[G3ckoG33k]

That is announced on ... Friday 13th. Halloween is over, so could it be they needed another telling day?

Would you buy?

[Anne Thwacks]

The question to anyone considering buying a Unix from MS is

Would you buy a used horse from a convicted horse-rapist?

Re:Would you buy?

[Zoshnell]

Would you buy a used car from a used car rapist?

Re:Would you buy?

[rishistar]

The question to anyone considering buying a Unix from MS is

Would you buy a used horse from a convicted horse-rapist?

Well, better than buying an *unused horse* from a horse rapist. That would be a sign that something is seriously wrong with it.

5 Microsoft versions of Linux

[Huntr]

Lemme guess: Home, Ultimate, Pro, Pro-er, and Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Re:silly

[Anonymous Coward]

What the hell are you using telnet for? SSH, man!

Oh, you're using Windows as a server platform, that explains it...