Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 17th Jun 2008 09:08 UTC, submitted by Edisamy
IBM is positive about the possibility of bringing out its DB2 under an open source license. While the computing giant has no immediate plans to open source DB2, market conditions may make it unavoidable, according to Chris Livesey, IBM's UK director of information management software. "We have a light version of the product offered for free, which is a step towards exposing our core (DB2) technology," said Livesey. "Looking at IBM's heritage in contributing to the open source market, we've been particularly keen to lead that market. Open source is an interesting space, as a whole. As the future unfolds, and the economics become clearer, there's going to be more commitment to open source by everybody. We've made good steps towards that."
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Counted by lines of code and human years Sun wins there with a large margin, since they have opensourced OpenOffice.org, OpenSolaris, OpenJDK, and others.
Have a look at this report (page 51) for statistics:
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/policy/doc/2006-11-20-flossimpac...
IBM seems to come in second, Red Hat third. Of course, there are other possible measures as well, such as community participation.
Edited 2008-06-17 10:35 UTC