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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Member since:2007-07-27
The key word here is "used to". Sun "used to" talk bad about OSS. Yes. Everyone agrees. Even a Sun fanboy as me.
But things have changed. Scott McNealy is no longer the CEO. McNealy belonged to Gates, Ellison, Ballmer, generation of CEO. The new CEO is doing wonders for OSS. He is not belonging to the old dinosaur CEOs. Who could have thought that SUN would open source their crown jewels and give away? Mac OS X is using ZFS now. And FreeBSD. etc. It is there, for everyone to download.
SUN contributes most to OSS nowadays. At Scott McNealy era, no OSS contributions were hardly made. McNealy was a... controversial man. But the new CEO isnt.
SUN is a new company now. Everything is changed.
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2008-06-05
The same could be said about Sun. Or is Sun's open sourcing for altruistic reasons only? Sun isn't out to make a profit you say? That sure explains a lot.
At least IBM's comments are far friendlier than those Sun used to make about open source / Free software.
But how soon we forget...