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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2007-07-27
I dont know about the other things, but I know that Java took long time because SUN had to prove that they owned each line of code. And that took long time and hard work. Still there are third party stuff that SUN can not open in Java. Same problem with OpenSolaris. Solaris can not be opened at will, because of lots of third party code. OpenSolaris has no third party code in it.
And also SUNs attempt to standardize Java didnt went well, because Microsoft stopped it. Motivation? "It it not good that a single company have that much influence on a standard" (OOXML anyone?)
http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2007/09/microsoft-conde.html
And still SUN did some bad things in the past, with Scott McNealy. But hey, all those CEOs (Gates, Ballmer, Ellison, etc) have the same mentality. McNealy is no different from those. But this new CEO is totally different. He opens everything and gives it away. Which other big company has opened it's crown jewels? No one. Sun is the only one doing this. And giving everything away. This was unthinkable of, with McNealy as CEO. But things change.