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- IBM Rational Software Architect V6.0
- IBM Rational Software Modeler V6.0
- IBM Rational Web Developer for WebSphere Software V6.0
- IBM DB2 Universal Database™ Enterprise Server Edition V8.2
- IBM DB2 Universal Database Express Edition V8.2
- IBM Lotus Domino® 6.5.3
- IBM Tivoli Directory Server V5.2
- IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.0
- IBM WebSphere Application Server Express V6.0
- IBM WebSphere Information Integrator Advanced Edition V8.2
- IBM WebSphere MQ V5.3
- IBM Workplace™ Client Technology, Micro Edition V5.7
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Nice to see the Rational Tools under Linux. Rational Functional Tester should be interesting. Mercury QuickTest Professional doesn’t even run under Linux. This should give IBM/Rational a Leg up on Mercury.
Good to see IBM’s products running on Linux, but NONE under GPL. These guys are totally using the Linux community, and doing no contribution.
>These guys [IBM] are totally using the Linux community, and doing no contribution.
Not sure where you get that…
I thought IBM was investing a lot in Linux so they would have developpers working for them in every major open source project. This makes sure they always have someone on the payrole who is closely involved with such projects when they need to give support in Linux. And that, in turn, makes it possible to charge more for the superb support (or at least best support possible), which is the ROI for them. All these payed developpers contribute to major open source stuff, so I would think everyone benefites, and big companies can pay for support (and features)…
Maybe I’m wrong, I wouldn’t know, but excuses in advance if I am…
and in other news IBM also announced that they are going to GPL their entire middleware stack. And opensource their JVM implementation. Oh that was a dream wasn’t it.
IBM are playing the opensource community for fools, when the community wakes up it will be too late. They already run the osdl –
OSDL Management who are ex-IBM
– CEO – Stuart F. Cohen
– Eng. Director – Tom Hanrahan
– Director of Asia – Masanobu Hirano
– Lab Director, Japan – Kentaroh Kikuchi
and former “straegic partnership maintainers”
– Business Development Director – G. Brian Grega
10 management members, 4 direct IBM and 1 closely related, 50% of osdl management isn’t too much domination by one company is it?
When IBM opensource tools like websphere I will start to trust them, until then we all would do well to avoid everything they do that is not available under an OSI license like the plague. Their Linux stuff is for business benefit – why can’t people see this?
“Their Linux stuff is for business benefit – why can’t people see this?”
Because it is legitimate to make money of Linux.
IBM is investing a lot of money in Linux, and they make a lot of money, but no one looses money here so there’s no problem.
Maybe they are milking the linux-cow to get more money, but the linux-cow still has milk enough for everyone..
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Yes IBM are investing lots, but they could change business strategy in the morning and then it will all go away. IBM have done this repeatedly in the past – they left OS/2 customers in the lurch and followed windows – if Linux stops being the flavour of the month they will switch to whatever is. This is where the problem lies.
All I am asking is that people understand that IBM are not writing code for Linux because “they get it” and are totally into opensource – they are writing code to make money and expand their services business (I know, I got layed off from my last job after IBM came in to setup our Linux solution. Two years of touting Linux to management and praising IBM to end up layed off as my role was outsourced to IBM global services – it is all about the money to them. Upside is that I ended up in an all Linux development house afterwards).
If they were so committed to opensource they would open up all of their middleware stack as well, as should Oracle etc.
They are playing lip service, doing some token development and opening up some token projects – the community is blinkered and naive if the think IBM is a friend.
I don’t fully understand the reasoning behind some of the comments so far in thie thread.
So, trying to look at it another way…
One of the biggest complaints by Windows affictionados is that there is a real scarcity of applications for Linux. Not all those that come in a typical distro but the real commercial ones as this is where companites like IBM make the money which allows them to invest in Linux.
So, here we have IBM releasing a set of applications (in trial form) that will only really appeal to Business users (there may be others but these are in the minority).
IBM has lots of Software that runs on many different platforms. These apps are expanding their Linux portfolio which gives the customer more choice where to run his business apps rather than just on Wintel, Z/OS, OS-400 or Unix etc.
IMHO, the more apps like this that are available then the more chance that business in general will go with Linux for future developments which is what the Pro Linux people want isn’t it?
Yes, IBM have made some rotten decisions in the past (eg OS/2) but hey guys give them a break and turn your attention to the companies that refuse to acknoweledge that Linux even exists (eg Broadcom(but I might be wrong))
But what do we care, Linux will survive with or without IBM. As for IBM open sourcing all their products, I doubt it’s ever going to happen, and if it does, it won’t happen overnight. But what’s the point again of IBM opensourcing all it’s product? I don’t get it.
The only thing I’m worried with IBM is they’re patent happy. Patents and FOSS doesn’t work, but IBM wants it both ways and I can see problems because of such.
BTW: are you the same “Anonymous (IP: —.anonymizer.com)” I keep seeing supporting Sun?
No, I’m not the anonmymizer dude that supports SUN. I think (s)he is a SUN employee.
And Sun put a 60 day limit to all their Websphere/Rational products. I have yet to find another sizeable J2EE vendor who does that.
The only thing I’m worried with IBM is they’re patent happy. Patents and FOSS doesn’t work, but IBM wants it both ways and I can see problems because of such.
It’s amazing how efficient Microsoft have been in making people think that patents is a problem to FOSS. Patents are a problem in ALL software development regardless if its free or not.
>>>It’s amazing how efficient Microsoft have been in making people think that patents is a problem to FOSS. Patents are a problem in ALL software development regardless if its free or not.
It is even MORE AMAZING how efficient that opensource and anti-MSFT fanatics have been in making people think that Microsoft was behind the patent fiasco in Europe. IBM is the biggest backer for software patents in Europe.