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Microsoft, SubSonic, and Me

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 30, 2007

“So that’s the deal: I’m going to work for Microsoft, and my job
will be to build out SubSonic as the ‘sweetness’ on top of ASP.NET
and (more notably) the new MVC platform. SubSonic will be the
convention-driven toolset for Microsoft’s new
MVC framework. Someone slap me…

“I think it’s worth pointing out that SubSonic hasn’t been
‘bought.’ Some might smell a conspiracy here, but I’ll leave that
to the X-Files and Cap’n Crunch crowd to drum up all the evil
reasons why the mothership has ‘beamed me up.’ SubSonic will remain
under the same MPL 1.1 license it always has, and will remain as
completely Open Source as it always has–nothing will change at
all…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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