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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The Sun fanbois on this site want to blast IBM for its self-interested motives regarding open source, but all you have to do is look at these three examples to see that Sun is the same:
OpenOffice.org - product acquisition. Couldn't make money off of StarOffice, so they tried to gain competitive position by offering it as open source.
OpenSolaris - Regardless of technical merit, Solaris was having its lunch eaten by Linux. Open-Sourcing Solaris was a bold move aimed at removing the ROI argument for switching from Solaris to Linux.
OpenJDK - Sun dragged its feet for years on Open-Sourcing Java, after repeated requests by IBM (arguing that there is no competitive advantage to be had in core JDK technology - a fair argument). After the Harmony project started gaining momentum and with open source runtimes for .Net available, Sun had little choice but to Open-Source Java.
Those who argue that Sun is a bigger friend of open source than IBM conveniently forget that Sun's motivations, as a publicly-traded company, are the same as IBM's. All decisions must be made to deliver greater value to the shareholders.