While it’s no longer news that Microsoft wants to cooperate with the open source community, it’s remarkable that Redmond is now going so far as to help found an open source project whose goal is to erase platform lock-in for programming. In the past, platform lock-in constituted  the crux of Microsoft’s business strategy, but those days are long past.

Source: Red Hat, Microsoft and Codenvy Push DevOps with New Language Protocol | Data Center Knowledge