March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
9h 32m
English
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The IBM Commitment to Open Source
IBM was quick to recognize the value of open source, forming alliances with distributors, contributing to the open source community, and enabling IBM products and services for many opens source products. IBM believes this investment will benefit service providers as they continue to look for effective alternatives like Linux for their IT infrastructures and e-business applications.
In 2001, IBM announced a donation of $40 million worth of software tools to the public domain in a move to create an open source organization aimed at developers. An organization called Eclipse will make available some of IBM's software programming tools to developers to create applications for e-businesses and Web services. More than ...