Ibm Exec Mills Scans The Open-Source Horizon. Is That Linux On The ...

Posted by tadelste on Aug 10, 2005 8:29 PM EDT
InformationWeek; By Larry Greenemeier
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When IBM considers the future of its $15 billion-per-year software business, the proliferation of open-source software and Java-based applications is crucial to kick-starting the division's relatively flat sales and keeping it competitive with Microsoft. IBM climbed aboard the Linux movement early, but over the past few years the company's open-source efforts have extended well beyond the operating system. IBM has made a habit of contributing code to open-source projects, hoping others will create new software that IBM can sell and provide services for, or that at the very least will encourage the growth of Java-based development to block Microsoft's .Net ambitions.

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